[HPforGrownups] Re: Felinia's Brilliant Fudge Theory

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 59953

Hey Debbie -

Again, I missed this post - but it's a great observation, and I hope to read 
the book.  :-)

I just started to get a feeling about Fudge's blindness with the scene at 
the end of GoF.

A poster earlier today (sorry, I cannot now remember the name) mentioned 
something about a split between people who believe that Voldemort has 
returned and that something has to be done right now, and those who wish to 
bury their heads in the sand.  That's a really common realpolitikal 
reaction, and something to keep in mind is that the events happening at 
Hogwarts are very far removed from the rest of the WW. Unless you actually 
have a kid there, you may not know anything about it at all; and what you 
hear from your child is likely to be a little distorted or incomplete in the 
telling due to lack of total information.

>However, here is something I posted a while ago, but will do again
>since it solidifies Felinia's theory (which I will call it since she
>came up with it). In the book "the Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the
>Mysteries of Harry Potter" by Galadriel Waters (an absolutely,
>fantastic book! A must-have!), on page 88 it reads: Lucius - ....it
>coincidentally was the name of Pope St. Lucius I, who became Pope
>when the exiled St. Cornelius died.  WHAT??? Cornelius died and
>Lucius become the head? Could it really happen in HP?
>
>I'm with you Felinia and derannimer. I think this will happen.
>However....if it does, I see Draco not being redeemed. I mean, his
>father is MOM - why would he not want to be a DE? Being the series is
>about choice, I'm starting to think Draco will show what happens when
>you make the wrong decisions, compared to Harry. I did think he would
>turn good, but now I'm not so sure.
>
>-Debbie
>who wishes Lucius would help Harry kill LV and redeem himself, but
>figures the chances of that are 99.99% not happening.  :-(
>
I am torn a little about what will happen with Draco - but I don't think he 
will redeem himself through his own volition.  I think, as I said in another 
post, that his mother Narcissa might get fed up and end up helping the good 
guys because she doesn't seem to be a committed baddie, just a petulant 
snob,a nd I doubt she married Lucius for love.  If that happens, I could see 
Draco torn between his parents and feeling that his mother may have picked 
the winning side, or be the lesser of two evils.  Someone else said, with 
which I heartily agree, that Draco probably wont' be truly redeemed if he 
winds up on "the good side" in that he'll exude bad grace about it, and 
won't really end up as Harry's friend, won't totally shake his prejudices 
about the superiority of purebloods, etc.  It will be a case of "the enemy 
of my enemy is my friend" - in realpolitik.  But Draco won't end up cozy 
with the Trio or their friends and relations.  I think it will be perhaps 
the tiny note of tension signalling the reality of what lies ahead at the 
end of the series - we may have defeated the big evil, but lesser evils are 
still with us.

Felinia

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