Anniversary post (Fudge, Snape)
Amy Z
aiz24 at hotmail.com
Thu Dec 27 11:52:41 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 32224
Hello all,
Today is my one-year anniversary on this wonderful list. I am getting quite
teary thinking of how much you all have brought to my life. I have not only
had more fun than a kitten in a yarn shop and added "HPfGU Moderator" to my
resume (if I ever dare print it there), but I've made some wonderful
friendships. Indulge a nostalgic old lady, I beg, and allow me to reprint
my first post.
I went looking for it with trepidation, since I seemed to recall that it was
about the number of students at Hogwarts and probably made list veterans
reach for a potion, either for a headache cure for themselves or poison for
me. I did find that post, and it was worse than I'd thought--I had only
listened to the books, not read them with my own eyes at that point, with
the result that I didn't know how to spell "Gryffindor." Fortunately, it
turned out not to be my very first. My very first was this one, not
terribly brilliant but at least repeatable without setting a bad example for
newbies <g>:
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From: "Amy Z" <aiz24 at hotmail.com>
Date: Wed Dec 27, 2000 3:44 pm
Subject: Re: Death Eater Roll Call?
Charmian wrote:
>Personally, I doubt that Bagman was a death eater. Seems too incompetent
>and non-threatening. Same with Fudge. It seems that Rowling makes it a
>point in book IV that all of the bad stuff in the wizarding world is not
>necessarily associated with Voldemort. (And these guys don't seem
>malevolent, simply blind/irritating) But who knows?
I am very curious about JKR's further development of Fudge along these
lines, but I tend to agree with you/hope you're right. You can interpret
Fudge's behavior as suspicious: he's quite insistent on leading Harry back
to the castle after the 3rd task, he brings a Dementor in to Crouch Jr. (&
sics it on him?). But I hope it is explained not by his being a V
sympathizer but as Harry sees it at the end of GoF: he is too threatened by
the truth to see that he has to acknowledge it and choose sides. This kind
of fear is just as dangerous as the fear that made Pettigrew sell a friend
to save his skin, and just as dangerous as the righteous zealotry displayed
by Crouch Sr. JKR has resisted dividing the wizarding world into nice
people who are good vs. nasty people who are bad (the best example so far is
Snape), and I'm glad.
Speaking of Snape, to pick up on another thread, I think V *is* probably
referring to him when he speaks of the one who has left and will be killed,
but even V seems not 100% certain that this Death Eater has left the fold
forever: a point in favor of S's pretending to return to V with the offer
of being a spy at the end of GoF or sometime thereafter. No, V isn't going
to trust him easily, but that's the way it is with spies--the closer they
are to your enemy, the more valuable they are, but they're also a bigger
risk. The possibility of having a loyal Death Eater at Hogwarts, one who
has Dumbledore's trust despite his history, one who is Malfoy's Head of
House (good for keeping an eye on him) and one who, furthermore, hates the
Potters with a passion . . . this must pose a temptation to V, who luckily
seems unable to read hearts.
Amy
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Love,
Amy
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Harry, looking around, felt he was home at last.
-HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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