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[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 21119

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> 
> I also still wonder about the shift in attitudes toward Harry that 
get 
> underway in GF and could prove pivotal.  Fudge, formerly one of his 
biggest 
> fans ("Ah, well, Snape--Harry Potter, you know," PA 21), is 
seriously 
> suggesting that he's off his rocker or evil ("the boy can talk to 
snakes!") 
> by the end; is this just Fudge being a tad unbalanced and it's 
temporary, or 
> will it spell serious trouble for Harry and Our Side with the 
ministry?  

The portentous title of Chapter 36 in GoF "The Parting of the Ways" 
suggests a serious long-term breach between Hogwarts and MOM, IMO.


> P.S.  Does anyone else get chills thinking that right this very 
moment JKR 
> could be writing Lupin's (Dumbledore's, Percy's, fill in your 
favorite 
> possibly-doomed character here) death scene?  Or is it just me?

I worry that at this very moment she's not writing "Phoenix" but is 
instead firing off another memo to Warners' about a flaw in the 
script or inadequate lighting in the first Great Hall scene.

   - CMC