"Harry felt sickened and angry: At this moment, excited eleven-year-olds would be poring over stacks of newly purchased spell-books, unaware that they would never see Hogwarts, perhaps never see their families again either."
These are students who are first year rising who already have their tickets and their wands. In all likelihood,Harry was correct. And since when had the busy matters of a new government takeover stopped bigots and racists from taking time out to impose their hate . The cruelty wasnt an inadvertent result of their policies, the cruelty was the point of the policies.