Crouch Sr., Fudge

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 22344

Barb wrote:

> after Barty Crouch, Sr. was discredited--which it turns out, 
> he shouldn't have been).

Why shouldn't he have been?  He lost cachet because his son was a 
Death Eater, and sure enough, his son was a Death Eater.  It might 
have been unfair to hold the son's, ah, political views against the 
father, but it wasn't inaccurate.

I like to think that people became uncomfortable with the free rein 
they'd been giving Crouch Sr.--his giving Aurors license to kill 
and all that--and that that's why he was passed over.  It's not very 
nice to let him do your dirty work and then say, "We'd like someone 
with cleaner hands" when the danger is past, but it's very much human 
nature.

BTW, I'd put Fudge in Ravenclaw.  Just a hunch.  Or he could be a 
Slytherin--ambition and political savvy--they aren't all Death Eaters!

Amy Z

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 Harry remembered how touchy Myrtle had always 
 been about being dead, but none of the other 
 ghosts he knew made such a fuss about it.
                  -HP and the Goblet of Fire
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