Musing About Mundungus

[moongirlk]

No: HPFGUIDX 34349

Mahoney wrote a pretty good description of the Mundungus in my head, 
which I have snipped.

Cindy replied:
> 
> That's it!  Mundungus is the old fart, sly as a fox, cagey war 
> veteran commander who never loses a battle.  He does whatever he 
> pleases, but he gets away with it because our team is *way* better 
> off with him on it than against it.  Maybe Mundungus even helped 
> Dumbledore defeat Grindewald or something.  

Mundungus Fletcher is far and away my favorite of the characters 
we've never actually met, or even of the lower echelon of characters 
we have met.  I have always thought of him as this crotchety old guy 
who's half-mad.  A contrary old cuss who thinks it's *funny* to hex 
people, especially if they're annoying enough to get into his 
business (as Arthur must have been at the time of the hex incident).  
Arthur didn't seem really to bear ill-will toward Fletcher - just 
exasperation, like he thinks of him as a "barmy old codger", to quote 
Dobby quoting Dumbledore.  Percy would, of course, not see the 
benefit of someone like that, but I think Arthur thinks of him more 
or less along the same lines as Moody, although somewhat less 
indulgently.  In fact, I can just see Gus and Al as a sort of wizard 
version of Grumpy Old Men (much more fun than the originals!).  
Also, because Arthur was working when Fletcher tried to hex him, I'm 
guessing he's a misuser of muggle artifacts.  This leads me to the 
following fun conclusion... can't you just see him being the inventor 
of the nose-biting teacups or some other equally fun prank item?  
Fred and George will *love* him.

kimberly
who intends to name a dog after Mundungus Fletcher, if ever she gets 
one