Mundungus Fletcher

[Marie Jadewalker <marie_mouse@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51077

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erisedstraeh2002 
<erisedstraeh2002 at y...>" <erisedstraeh2002 at y...> wrote:
> Tzvi of Brooklyn wrote:
> 
> > We all know that Dumblydore sends Sirius to go round up the gang 
> > which consists of Mundungus Fletcher, Arabella Figg, and Lupin. 
> > I haven't read CoS in a while and I ran by his name. He had been 
> > raided by the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts department of the MoM. 
> > Has this been discussed before. What do you think it means?
> 
> Phyllis wrote:
> 
> LOON here:  In CoS, Arthur Weasley does not say that Mundungus was 
> raided by the MoM, he says "And old Mundungus Fletcher tried to put 
> a hex on me when I had my back turned" (Ch. 3).  I interpreted this 
> as meaning that Mundungus was working with Arthur during the raids, 
> but that Mundungus is a bit loony and played a prank on Arthur 
> during the raid.  

I like that idea.  :)  If that is the case, that reference is easier 
to mesh with Mundungus being one of the "old crowd" than if he, 
himself were being raided.  (Of course, CoS also tells us that Arthur 
would get into pleanty of trouble if the MoM raided *his* workshop, 
so who knows...)  But the idea of Mundungus as a practical joker like 
the twins amuses me.  

> We have further evidence of Mundungus' loony-ness when he 
> submits a claim in GoF for QWC damage to his "twelve-bedroomed tent 
> with en-suite jacuzzi" when he really was "sleeping under a cloak 
> propped on sticks" (Ch. 10).

Maybe it's just me, but I always thought that line was meant to poke 
fun at Percy.  We know the Weasleys and their friends stayed in what 
looked like two pup tents but internally were fully-furnished flats.  
Is there any reason Mundungus's "twelve-room tent" couldn't have 
looked like a cloak propped up on sticks from the outside?  I laughed 
when I read this because I thought it was Percy being pompus and 
thinking he'd caught someone when he hadn't.  But then, maybe I read 
too much into it.  

~Marie