Screwtape

[maneelyfh]

No: HPFGUIDX 77536

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
wrote:
> I happened to take Screwtape down from the shelf the other day, and 
> noticed some interesting correspondences to the Potter books.
> 
> First and most trivially, the name of Screwtape's nephew: 
Wormwood.  I 
> am pretty sure, but not absolutely certain, that Wormwood predates 
> Tolkien's Wormtongue by a few years.  Not that Wormtail necessarily 
> derived from either, but if it did then Wormwood would be the 
ultimate 
> source.
> 
> Then, in his second preface (to, I think, the 1961 edition), Lewis 
> wrote: "We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is 
perpetually 
> concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has 
a 
> grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of 
> envy, self-importance, and resentment. ... The greatest evil ... is 
> conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in 
> clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men 
with 
> white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do 
not 
> need to raise their voice.  Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for 
> Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the 
> offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
> 
> Except for the white collars, this seems to fit Fudge, Umbridge, 
> Percy, and the whole ministry perfectly.  Fudge is willing to risk 
> letting Voldemort have a free hand, because to acknowledge his 
return 
> would make him look foolish, and might lose him his job.  He 
certainly 
>   envies and resents Dumbledore and his powers and allies.  And, of 
> course, self-importance is every politician's major characteristic.
> 
<Big Giant Snip>
So, what would happen to Fudge if LV won? wouldn't LV have power over 
Fudge or so away with the MOM altogether? IF fudge supportts LV in 
hopes LV will come to power, then Fudge would be in good standing 
with LV and hopefully come away with some power. 
Fran