Sirius; Fudge eats words

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No: HPFGUIDX 14983

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Monika wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Fudge says something like that, too:
> > "I must say, You-Know-Who alone and friendless is one thing...
> > but give him back his most devoted servant, and I shudder to
> > think how quickly he'll raise again..."
> 
> When does he say this?  It's now, isn't it?  So Fudge has had 13 
> years to think of Sirius as the person who was so devoted to 
> Voldemort that he'd turn his best friend & his family over to be 
> murdered.  From Fudge's POV (and everyone else's), Sirius exposed 
> himself as a DE the night the Potters died, and then found himself 
in a very bad way because his Master fell.  The whole story as told 
and retold in the past 13 years implies that Sirius was very high up 
in  the DEs.  But that's all an explanation after the fact, an 
attempt to  explain Sirius's actions that night and then vs. 
Pettigrew; no one  thought of Sirius as V's "right-hand-man" or 
anything like it before  then, because they thought he was on the 
right side.  At least, such  stars of the anti-V effort as 
Dumbledore, James, and Lily did, and  presumably Fudge did too.
> 
> BTW, it's very interesting to be reminded that Fudge said that, in 
> light of his actions in GoF.  When informed that You-Know-Who did 
> indeed get back his most devoted servant (well, one of them), he 
> nevertheless flatly refuses to believe that he's risen again.
> 
> Amy Z


OH NO!!  I just had some sort of weird power surge.  (High winds, 
flickering lights...)

If this response has alread shown up, forgive me for sending the same 
message twice!!!

My comment was that indeed it is interesting that Fudge would be 
eager to see Sirius as V's right-hand man without much persuading,  
but would not want to see some obvious Voldemort activity in GoF.  It 
makes me think of a comment someone on this list made a while ago 
regarding Sirius' imprisonment w/o trial.  One of the reasons given 
as to why this happened was that someone in power in the MOM, who is 
really in league with Voldemort, wanted to ensure that Sirius was 
removed from the playing field.  In other words, get him out of the 
game by sending him to prison. 

I don't believe that Fudge was the Minsiter of Magic at the time of 
the Potters' deaths, but perhaps he was instrumental in locking 
Sirius up. There's always been something about Fudge that has rubbed 
me the wrong way...

Marianne