Fudge is Way Evil and I have the acronyms to prove it

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 35766

Pippin wrote:

> Okay, there's a possibility Fudge could be evil. Dumbledore 
> seems to be weighing that when he takes his hard look at 
> Fudge. But I don't think Dumbledore buys it, because he doesn't 
> adopt the needling tone he uses with Lucius Malfoy at the end of 
> CoS. Also, if Fudge were a DE, wouldn't he leap at the chance to 
> send envoys to the Giants, and agree at once to remove the 
> Dementors from Azkaban? 

Hmmm.  I think Fudge *is* going to send envoys to the Giants.  He's 
just not going to send the envoy Dumbledore would want him to send.  
As for removing the dementors from Azkaban, Fudge has a plan there, 
too.  I suspect there will be a rash of escapes from Azkaban in the 
near future.  

Fudge is actually quite slick.  Rather than remove the Azkaban 
guards, which would create quite a public stir, he will leave them 
in place to do Voldemort's bidding.  The Bad Guys get sprung; the 
Good Guys like Sirius are relieved of their souls.  A politician 
like Fudge would call it a win-win situation.

As for Dumbledore's failure to show disdain toward Fudge, I think 
Dumbledore is being careful to avoid getting tossed out of Hogwarts 
completely.  Dumbledore has already been shown the door once in 
CoS.  Dumbledore will be deferential to Fudge's face, anyway.  

It's not going to work, though.  I'm pretty sure Dumbledore is on 
his way out as Hogwarts Headmaster.  Maybe Flitwick is about to get 
a promotion?

Pippin again:

> Also, making Fudge evil guts the meaning from Dumbledore's 
> speech at the end of GoF. If Fudge is evil, then whom do we have 
> who has chosen what was easy rather than what was right?   

Fudge, Karkaroff and Bagman have chose easy over right (I think).  
I'm looking around for people who have chosen right over easy.  
Snape, maybe.  There aren't too many other names that come to mind.

Cindy