The Half-Hour Chat with Fudge

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 71687

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "The Crashing Boar" 
<crashing.boar at n...> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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
Me again:
You certainly make good points that it's possible to avoid ideology. 
I was concerned that the forces that LV will line up against the MoM 
and DD could not be vanquished if Fudge doesn't make peace with all 
the non-wizarding magical creatures that wizards have been trying to 
control these many centuries. And I guess it's possible or perhaps 
certain that a good politician can make alliances without changing 
one iota. I guess I had hoped for better in this little meta-world. 
J