Everyone was taken aback. They thought that Cornelius would be for peace and would lower the extra security measures, but they never thought, he was working against his goal and was enforcing the law. James and Sirius were not happy campers that they couldn’t blame this new regulation on this snake Malfoy, but Cornelius was as slimy as Lucius Malfoy and they still didn’t understand, how Cornelius became a Gryffindor. Maybe the years working in the ministry made Fudge a snake and corruptive.