Yet Another Flint? -- Fudge and the Dementors

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 27219

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., cynthiaanncoe at h... wrote:
> 
> How does Fudge learn that something drove the dementors off at all, 
> or that they tried to Kiss Harry?  Aren't the only people who could 
> have told Fudge about this the dementors themselves?  Does this 
mean 
> Fudge may have some relationship with the dementors that we don't 
> fully understand?  

Fudge says of that robed tribe in Chap. 10: "Rosmerta, dear, I don't 
like them any more than you do.....Necessary precaution... 
unfortunate, but there YOU are.... I've just met some of them. 
They're in a fury against Dumbledore -- he won't let them inside the 
castle grounds."

We don't know how they do it - mental telepathy, Morse code, sign 
language, exchanging hand-written notes - but dementors can 
communicate with humans.  The dementors surely had no reason to 
conceal their encounter with Harry's Patronus from such *sympaticos* 
as Fudge and Snape ("How can we get our job done with horrors like 
Prongs floating around this place?")

   - CMC