Fudge question

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 13183

Kimberly wrote:


> Dai (I think it was Dai) mentioned something about Fudge, and how 
> serious it was that Fudge didn't believe Harry, and that's been 
> niggling at me.  Fudge knows that (not)Mad-Eye Moody didn't leave 
the 
> Quidditch pitch during the events of the third task, and he knows 
that 
> Cedric is dead.  If he believes that Crouch was acting alone out of 
> his own lunacy, then how does he explain Cedric's death?

Once he hears the story of the whole evening, he can explain it by 
saying Crouch must've killed him the same way he Stunned Fleur and 
put the Imperius on Krum:  looked through the hedges and hit him with 
AK.

Right now (i.e. as of "The Parting of the Ways"), Fudge doesn't even 
know the full story told by Crouch and Harry, so he isn't using 
reason or coming up with plausible explanations of how Cedric died.  
He's just believing what he wants to believe.

Amy Z

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