The Half-Hour Chat with Fudge

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 71600

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote:
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> Or, how much does Dumbledore reveal?  Towards the end of Chapter 
36, 
> after the battle in the Dept. of Mysteries, Dumbledore tells a 
> shocked Fudge that he will give him half an hour to tell Fudge the 
> major points of what has happened.

ME: I can not see Dumbledore letting Fudge in on everything.  He does 
have leanings toward the "purity of blood" prejudices (after all, 
Lucius Malfoy was always at his right hand it seems..) I think DD 
will operate on a "need-to-know" basis with Fudge. One half hour is 
not nearly enough time to get him up to speed and DD will want to be 
sure that Fudge understands the monumental nature of LV's return 
before he gives away the store.

Marianne again:
I do see the Order continuing as a sort of 
> intelligence-gathering operation that will funnel that information 
to> people in the Ministry who can act on it appropriately.

Marianne

Me:
While I agree with this strategy too, I tend to think that DD will 
not let Fudge in on the Order immediately. Fudge has to sort out 
where he stands on things. You can't just oppose LV becaus he kills 
people. You have to be against his ideology. And that will be the 
greater challenge. If, in future, Fudge appears to "get it", he then 
has a great deal of fence mending to do with his own ministry members 
and house-cleaning too. It would be leathal to ask LV sympathizers 
and Order members to work in the same ministry, wouldn't it?
Jennifer

 
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