FUDGE IS A DE!!!!

[erinellii]

No: HPFGUIDX 78778

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "spedlegs4169" <rjpuntoni at a...> 
wrote: 
>         One other thought on all of this, there have been plenty of 
> times where Harry and Fudge have been in the same room, and I may 
> have to check this, but i do believe that Fudge has touched Harry
> (I'm thinking of when Harry arrives at the Leaky Cauldron in PoA).  
> If Fudge was a DE wouldn't Harry's scar have hurt if Fudge had 
> touched him if he is a Death Eater, his scar hurt when he was near 
> Umbridge or when Umbridge touched him.  So wouldn't it be the same 
> with Fudge the DE?
>           -RJ


  No, because;

1.  Umbridge isn't a proven death eater.
  
2.  Umbridge wasn't the one who caused Harry's scar to hurt.  It hurt 
because Voldemort was feeling a strong surge of emotion related to 
Sturgis Podmore's attempt to get the prophecy at the time. Umbridge 
just happened to be near Harry.

  And also, I don't think anyone besides Voldemort CAN make the scar 
hurt.  I don't think its something that holds true for all the DEs, 
otherwise Harry could be used as a sort of living dark detector- just 
push him up against suspects, and if he yells, arrest the person 
immediately!

So Fudge touching Harry proves nothing.  Mind you, I think it has 
been made pretty clear the Fudge is NOT a DE, otherwise the whole 
fifth book's plot would have been pretty pointless.

Erin