I wonder... could Scrimgeour be... a Death Eater?
Wouldn't that be something?? Hopefully he's just a nosey busy-body, but who knows.
Well, IIRC, Lucius Malfoy works in the Ministry, so I don't think it would be all that far-fetched to have a Death-Eater amongst the Aurors...after all, I don't think they "caught" all that many, and I doubt all of them stopped practicing the Dark Arts even after publicly renouncing Voldermort.
Yet more food for thought!