He had a flood of applicants to become Aurors yet was hesitant to lowering the standards to fill the ranks quicker, but he was essentially running the whole Aurory alone. He always thought Ron would be by his side, and would have Mad-Eye and Kingsley as role models to look up to. Instead he couldn't stand them. All he really had was a rag-tag team of people from Dumbledore's Army who was picking up the slack for security and asking the occasional favor from Severus and Fleur.