Why Fudge gets the Dementors

[stevekimmel at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 3304

Fudge may be the innocent that most of you seem to want to believe. I 
don't think so.

Consider this line of reasoning. Assume that Deatheaters are willing 
to lie. So I don't put much stock in the deatheaters saying they 
don't know who the others are at their trials. In Goblet of fire we 
have many occasions when it appears the deatheaters know each other. 
They acted in concert at the World Cup. The ones at Hogwarts seem 
well aware of the others who have a problem with the black mark on 
their arm. At the end several of them form a circle around Voldemort 
and he calls them by name. It is the wizards and witches who are not 
deatheaters who don't know whos is and who is not.

It follows then that the deatheaters knew that Sirius Black was not 
one of them and that Peter Pettigrew was not. The deatheaters would 
not view the confrontation between Black and Pettigrew as being 
innocent Pettigrew chasing evil Black. They know better. They know 
Pettigrew was one of their own. They think Black has hunted down and 
killed Pettigrew. Thus Black is a dangerous enemy. They aren't too 
worried about him as long as he is being safely held by their natural 
allies, the dementors of Azkaban. Once he escapes, though, he is a 
threat to them all especially since Voldemort was "gone" and unable 
to assist them. Black needs to be eliminated as soon as possible, 
preferably in a way that would be acceptable or at least not draw 
attention to them. So Fudge calls the dementors to administer the 
kiss to Sirius.

Later, the plan with Mad Eye Moody is foiled and an insider, Barty 
Jr, is telling the enemy, Dumbledore and others, everything he knows. 
He is now a serious threat that must be eliminated. Preferably in a 
way that doesn't call attention to the deatheaters. Fudge shows up 
with the deatheaters natural ally, the dementors, and has him 
administer the kiss.

Whenever the deatheaters need somebody eliminated in a way that 
doesn't draw attention to them, it is Cornelius Fudge who shows up 
with a dementor. Add to that his casting aspersions on Harry's 
credibility. Add to that his ludicrous defense of everyone Harry 
identifies as having been there with Voldemort. Add to that his 
unwillingness to cooperate with Dumbledore, his desire to suppress 
the fact Voldemort has returned.

I think the case that Cornelius Fudge is a follower of Voldemort is 
pretty strong. Cornelius Fudge gets the Dementors because he is 
sufficiently unskilled at magic... perhaps is even a squib... because 
that is how he carries out his master's will.