Avaricious Fudge?

[angela_glor]

No: HPFGUIDX 87796

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jotwo2003" <jsummerill at s...> 
wrote:

>Re-reading OOP I've had a few thoughts about Fudge. Even though by 
>the end he had been forced to accept that Voldemort was back I think 
>he is going to cause more trouble for the good side in the next 
>books. (I think this is my own theory but I've read so many 
>discussions in fandom that sometimes I'm not sure where ideas comes 
>from.) 
 

I think you are on the right track, for sure.  I think it would be a 
big disappointment if JKR just dropped the whole Fudge plot line.  I 
think Fudge's denial and footdragging will continue, but it won't be 
quite so "in your face" and overbearing.  He would be more likely, I 
think, to believe his constituents want new sewers and improved trash 
pick up than devoting those resources to the upcoming war.  

Also, Fudge has a political problem.  He has already staked his 
political fate on "Voldemort hasn't returned and Harry is crazy."  It 
isn't easy to make an about-face in politics like that and expect 
people to take your seriously once you want to claim that Harry is 
sane and Voldemort is back.  He has ironically worked very hard to 
undermine his own credibility.

>Now, I know The Quibbler has been presented in canon as the sort of 
>newspaper that makes the National Enquirer look like the Financial 
>Times, but I get the impression that fans suspect that there may be 
>a kernel of truth in some of its outrageous stories.  

I'm not a big fan of the tabloids, but they sometimes do get the real 
story more quickly than the major papers.  That was the case in the 
Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, right?  I wish I had a better understanding 
of just how the Quibbler is going to factor into the last two books.  
I don't really see the point of Luna or the Quibbler, really, 
although I did like Luna very much.

Angela