[HPforGrownups] Fudge and Mudge

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 52117

Jodel:
>2. For the past fourteen years, Dumbledore has actively supported Fudge's
>position in office. Very actively. Dumbledore was offered the position and
>did not want it "so we got Fudge". Had Dumbledore suggested Fudge? After
the
>Longbottom affair, had Fudge looked like the best of a poor choice, or had
he
>some background in Dumbledore's organization? Certainly up to the parting
of
>the ways chapter it is clear that Dumbledore had *trusted* Fudge.

And given the amount of advice that Dumbledore has given Fudge over the
years, I'm sure he would have hoped that _some_ of it would have sunk in...

>6. There is no question that the tendency of Fudge's policies and his
>decisions made as MoM, all support Voldemort's adgenda. The Question is
not;
>is he a colaborator, or even is he a willing collaborator, but, is he a
>*knowing* collaborator? Rowling has managed to keep this issue unclear. I
>would say that the very murkiness of this uncertainty is itself a clue.

I think we may be kept guessing on this one. It's logical (a word which I
tend to avoid using because logic isn't part of the WW!) to conclude that
Voldemort has an agent high in the echelons of the MoM. Not MacNair, he's
too junior in rank, and probably too old. But is it Fudge? Is it Bagman? And
also how much of a following of secret Voldemortians are there? I've
wondered out loud before now about the tie up between House Slytherin being
for ambitious wizards, the MoM being the logical career choice for ambitious
wizards, and the tendency for Slytherins to gravitate towards the black
robed side.

Cheers

Ffred

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