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--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Joe McCauley <mccauley at d...> wrote:
> New member here - been lurking a few days,
 Welcome! 

 and I think I know how the Dursleys
> felt when they were inundated by owls.  How will I ever get all 
this mess 
> cleaned off my computer.  In fact I doubt if I'll be able to stick 
around
> long - I used to participate in another fan list that generated 
only about a
> fourth the traffic of this one, and my wife complained that I spent 
too much
> time on it.  
> 
After a while you learn to pick and choose the topics you want to 
follow. You might want to switch to Web-only viewing if you haven't 
already, esp. if you have a finite amount of space for email!
 It'd be nice, though, if Egroups let you trace a parent message from 
the reply.


> A couple of thoughts after recently finishing GoF.  First, what's 
the deal
> with Cornelius Fudge?  I can think of three possibilities:
>  - He's an ally of Voldemort
>  - He's under some sort of curse that prevents him from considering 
the 
>    possibility that Voldemort has returned
>  - He really is just the stubborn, closed-minded mule he seems to be
>
I think Fudge is the stubborn, closed-minded mule he seems to be. 
He's a parody of a politician who listens to the civil servants and 
his own press agents too much. (cf. Borsk Fey'lya in the "Star Wars; 
New Jedi Order" novels)

> One thing really bugs me about GoF.  It seems to me that all Crouch 
("Moody")
> had to do to deliver Harry to Voldemort was to turn some object 
into a 
> portkey and get Harry to touch it.  

Have you ever seen the "When I Am An Evil Overlord" list? Someone 
here has various bits of it rotating as his signature (is the master 
list online anywhere?). Seriously, the only reason I can think of is 
necessity to the plot.