[HPforGrownups] Re: Discovery about Cornelius fudge (might be very important)

[Susan Hall]

No: HPFGUIDX 21779

>What makes me a bit anxious for poor Cornelius is that
he's "protected" by Dementors, who will easily turn
>against him. BTW, does anybody have ideas about why
Fudge doesn't seem too affected by their presence? I
mean, it's one thing seeing them from time to time at
>an inspection of Azkaban, but certainly another having
>them round him as bodyguards....

I believe Fudge is protected from the Dementors by a complete and total want
of imagination, best summed up in the phrase "Things like that don't happen
to people like us".  He doesn't have any particularly vulnerable spots and
can't imagine what having a dementor nearby would do to people who do.
Because he is so unimaginative he both cannot understand mental illness
(hence his worry over the Rita Skeeter article which implies Harry is
"unstable") and fears it.  His own comparative lack of response to the
dementors both allows him to send people to Azkaban and still sleep at
nights (after all, he probably thinks it wouldn't be so bad and they should
simply pull themselves together and stop being so feeble).

Fudge may or may not be evil, but men like he are *very8 dangerous.

Susan