[HPforGrownups] Fudge's version of the Sirius/Peter encounter

[Liz Sager]

No: HPFGUIDX 32705


>"dicentra_spectabilis_alba" wrote:
>In PA, Fudge says that when he arrived on the scene, shortly after the
>blast that "killed" Pettigrew, Sirius was laughing.
>
>Is this an embellishment of Fudge's or was Sirius laughing (or
>something similar) and Fudge misinterpreted what he saw?

Fudge seems to be the type of man that would embellish that kind of thing, 
whether it was for motives or other things. OTOH, Sirius might have been 
really laughing, though I fail to find the humor in the situation. I guess 
you had to be there and not die :P

>If the former, did Fudge have an ulterior motive for making Sirius out
>to be the villian? Could it be linked to his refusal to take
>Voldemort's return seriously?

Once again, Fudge seems to me the kind of man that refuses to look past the 
end of his nose unless someone reaches up and grabs that nose and stretches 
it out a few feet. Its easier to deny that Voldemort has been resurrected 
than to seriously investigate. Although if two of the four champions were 
suddenly wisked away to an undisclosed locale and one came back dead, there 
should be a light bulb going off in someone's head.

I realize that there was nothing really to go on other than Harry's word, 
but immediately sentencing Barty Crouch Jr. to the Dementor's Kiss was 
really, *really* stupid. If he hadn't done that, then they might have gotten 
him put back in Azkaban, and maybe even a couple more things about 
him--because unless he had changed in the last eleven years he does NOT like 
Azkaban.

My point is I wonder how someone like Fudge got to be in charge. *I* 
certainly wouldn't have voted for him (if that's how they get the 
MoM...*holds up her "Arthur Weasley for MoM" sign*)

Liz


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