[HPforGrownups] Re: The Half-Hour Chat with Fudge

[The Crashing Boar]

No: HPFGUIDX 71614

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Jennifer:
  <snip>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..) <snip>

Dawn:
  I suspect that to be more the purity of his gold than his blood....

Jennifer:
  <snip> 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. <snip>

Dawn:
  Britain declared war on Germany in WW2 not on a matter of ideology but because 'that annoying little upstart is pushing his weight around'.  It was only afterwards that the extreme actions based on the Nazi ideology came to public light.  If the Nazis hadn't tried to expand their borders and started treading on toes, how much would anyone have done to stop them?  For more recent history, look to the Gulf Wars.  Sanctions and general name calling was all that happened even with proven atrocities taking place.  US/UK took it further only on the strength of danger to their citizens and interests beyond the Iraqi border areas. THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL THING, I'm just using them as examples of how the actual ideology of LV would likely be less important to Fudge and his collegues, lose of face and power would probably be the deciding factor.

  Dawn


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