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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 35813

::Pippin gives the cape a whirl, but decides it makes her look like 
a vampire::

 Dumbledore asks the students to do three things, in order to 
choose what is right over what is easy.

1) Acknowledge that Dumbledore is telling the truth. Voldemort 
has returned 
2) Set aside their old enmities and differences
3) Consider themselves welcome at Hogwarts

The three adults, Fudge, Karkaroff and Bagman, act out  the 
rejection of this message.

1)Fudge does not acknowledge Voldemort's return
2)Karkaroff cannot set aside the differences between himself 
and Dumbledore
3)Bagman flees Hogwarts, covering up his own crimes, not 
Voldemort's

So if Fudge does indeed realize that Voldemort has returned and 
is covering up, it knocks the artistic and logical stuffing out of 
Dumbledore's speech. There is then no one whom we can be 
sure has heard the bad news and refused to believe it. 

Fudge's prejudice in believing that people of "very old family" who 
contribute to "excellent causes" are  not capable of anything 
shady, and his belief that the Dementors are under control are 
objective evils, but not the result of malice, IMO.  Therefore I don't 
consider Fudge evil. "Those who aren't with us are against us," 
sounds too much like old Crouch for me.

Dicentra said--
>But if you want to go for a more nuanced Fudge--someone who 
isindifferent about Good and Evil and plays both sides against 
eachother for his own benefit, then THAT would be an interesting 
theory.<

and signed off:
--Dicentra, who would think of an acronym but it's lunch time

M.A.L.F.O.Y.
Machiavellian Alliances  Let Fudge Optimize? Yipes!

which sums up my feeling that Lucius is the character who does 
this.

Pippin