As such, spoilers will be present within the article. Minister Kingsley Shacklebolt was a British pure-blood wizard [ 2 ] in the employment of the Ministry of Magic.
He worked for the Ministry as an Auror , but joined the reconstituted Order of the Phoenix in after being convinced of the return of Lord Voldemort. Working undercover within the Ministry, he fed the Order with information, and misdirected the Ministry's efforts to locate Sirius Black by saying he was spotted in Tibet. In , he fought in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries , and was later assigned to guard the Muggle Prime Minister , posing as his secretary.
Forced into running away following the fall of the Ministry to Lord Voldemort in , Kingsley continued to oppose the new regime. In , he fought in the Battle of Hogwarts , and was named Acting Minister for Magic in the aftermath. When he was eventually officially confirmed in the position of the thirty-fifth Minister for Magic, he, along with Harry Potter , Ron Weasley , and Hermione Granger , worked hard to change the Ministry.
They eventually succeeded in greatly reducing the corruption and pure-blood bias within the organisation. By , Kingsley was succeeded as Minister for Magic by Hermione. Not much has been revealed about Kingsley's life before becoming an Auror. All that is known is that he was born into a pure-blood wizarding family at a point in or earlier [ 1 ] and that he attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in his youth, although it is unknown which House he was sorted into.
During , he was assigned to stake out Knockturn Alley alongside Nymphadora Tonks in the hopes of capturing a Dark wizard who had stolen a wand formerly belonging to Gellert Grindelwald.
