The Nature of Cowardice (was Fudge is not evil)

[draco382 <draco382@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48362

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
> As for Fudge... well, my views are well known if not well 
understood.
> As a *self-interested* coward who will not recognise the threat 
posed by 
> Voldemort, I view him, if nothing else, as the embodiment of the 
> institutionalised evil of a government which will not face up to 
the truth 
> and act.
> 
> As Burke said (and as has been quoted here before), "It is 
necessary only for 
> the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph."
> 

I just finished reading GOF again and am 
grinning from ear to ear after seeing this discussion.  My general 
impression of Fudge is that he is indeed evil (not necessarily 
cowardly) and mostly likely working for a government whose main 
purpose is to cover up evidence and twist the truth.  Being a one 
time huge X-Phile, I was reminded of the basic plot line in which a 
case would be nearly solved...until evidence/witnesses would be 
destroyed under the pretence of an "accident."  Fudge is not the 
Minister for nothing...he is obviously well versed in official 
procedures, and its highly unlikely that he would dispose of such 
strong evidence (Barty Crouch Jr.) on accident.  
How Fudge got his position and what exactly he has been doing while 
in power is something yet to be discovered, but I'm not expecting 
his methods to be exactly ethical.  
So yeah, I think FIE :-)

my two cents,
draco382