[HPforGrownups] Re: Who Trusts Snape?! (OofP spoilers)

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 67002

At 21:51 +0000 on 07/02/2003, tigerpatronus wrote about 
[HPforGrownups] Re: Who Trusts Snape?! (OofP spoilers):

>I think DD is just a terrible judge of character. You can call him
>sweet and just to give bad people second chances, maybe even more
>chances, but I think he's got a seriously flawed sense of who to
>trust.

I have not yet read OoP (I just started it this evening at supper at 
a restaurant and got to Page 22 before finishing my dinner) so I may 
be off chasing a Red Herring (assuming that there is no support in 
OoP for this impression) but I think there are indications that Fudge 
is a secret DE (assuming that he is not just the fool he is portrayed 
as being). His actions at the end of the 3rd and 4th book (killing a 
witness against LV, refusing to accept that LV has returned, refusal 
to listen to HP before he evaluated Harry's attempts to testify 
against Snipe's version of the capture of Black in Book 3, etc). DD's 
failure to squash Fudge after repeated failures to act responsibly on 
Fudge's Part are another failure on DD's part (independent of if 
Fudge is a DE or not).