Evil Evil Fudge

[linda_mccabe <lmccabe@sonic.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48253

--- <suzloua at h...> wrote:
> Upon re-reading PoA for the zillionth time, I noticed something on 
p156, in the Three Broomsticks scene. Old Fudge, in GoF, is adamant 
that Voldemort could not come back if his life depended on it. 
However, on p156, Fudgey says that "give him back his most faithful 
servant, and I shudder to think how quickly he will rise again." 
Now, Sirius Black, as far as Fudge is concerned, is still a bad guy, 
and LV's right hand man. So when Sirius escapes at the end of PoA, V 
has been, in Fudge's own words "given back his most faithful 
servant". (Of course, it turned out Barty Jr was his most faithful 
servant, but that doesn't cover FIE :) ) Why then, in Goblet, does 
Fudge find it so hard to believe V is rising again? After all, 
Sirius has returned to him. Another DE has been revealed in 
Crouch/Moody. All the signs point to it, and yet Fudge denies it?
> 
> It is possible, of course, that Fudge is simply in denial because 
he doesn't want to believe it. But then, why did he so obviously 
accept the idea in the Three Broomsticks?
> 
> Thoughts, anyone?
> 
> Susan
> (who is making her first post that wasn't a reply, and is 
clutching her canon fearfully even as we speak)
> 

Susan, 
The reason is simple and you've nailed it in the heading:  Fudge is 
Evil.  FIE.  He is.  He helped railroad Sirius Black, knowing full 
well that Sirius was innocent.  This railroading of a Dumbledore 
follower helped to get rid of another one of Voldy's enemies.  It 
also helped him ascend the political ladder quickly.  We don't know 
who the Minister of Magic was before Fudge, but it looked like it 
was going to be Crouch.  Then when Crouch, Sr. was embarrassed by 
having a Death Eater son, well it landed upon Fudge.  Power hungry 
Fudge.

That's why I believe that Fudge was worried about Sirius meeting up 
with Harry Potter.  Not that he worried about the young lad's 
safety, he wanted to make sure Sirius didn't tell him the truth and 
undermine Fudge's political standing.  Fudge wanted Sirius to have 
the Dementor's Kiss before he could talk and possibly say something 
to incriminating.

How would it look if the Wizarding World realized that they hadn't 
even tested Sirius Black's wand and that they destroyed the memories 
of all the Muggle eyewitnesses.   I mean, who is to say that 
everyone of them implicated Sirius?  Maybe one didn't as as he 
started to say something contrary to what was desired, "Obliviate!"  
You can't cross-examine them now can you?

I think Fudge is probably a spy for Voldy.  I don't think he was 
ever properly initiated into the DE ranks, but I think he did 
Voldy's bidding.  The strange smile on his face at the end of GoF is 
worrying exactly what the price he's going to have to pay to Voldy 
now that he has risen again.

Oh he is evil.  Ever So Evil.  And for Sirius to be cleared, Fudge 
will have to be brought down.  And yes, that's what the meaning of 
his last name is all about.  Fudging on the Truth.

Athena

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