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

[Nicholina ODonnell]

No: HPFGUIDX 71763

Marianne: 
>> Of course, that assumes that you believe Fudge would not at all shade 
>> the truth.  He's the one who says Sirius was laughing maniacally.  

Evangelina:
>He wasn't the only one though; Stan Shunpike at the Knight Bus said it too. But then 
>Stan seems to be the type who enjoys a good story more than the actual truth, so he 
>could be even less credible.

But where would Stan have gotten his information?  He surely wasn't an eye witness.  He must have heard about it in the Daily Prophet.  They would have gotten the story from Fudge, so again, it comes back to what Fudge said had happened.

Nicholina




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