Fudge's Character: Evil!Fudge (WAS: Could Fudge fire Dumbledore?)

[bowlwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 56823

"rane_ab" wrote:

>I'm not really sure what you mean when you say Fudge has some evil 
>mojo. (what *is* a mojo, exactly, BTW?) Do you think Fudge is on 
>Voldemort's side, or that he's just working for himself? 

I hope that my discussion of what mojo is doesn't belong on OT-
Chatter, but I wanted to give you just a quick definition:

Mojo is a slang word of African-American origin, roughly equal to the 
Native American "medicine".  It can mean charisma, charm (in several 
senses of the word), sexual chemistry, luck, magic, just to start 
with.

You can find more info here:
http://pages.prodigy.net/sfumato/pages/whatismojo.html

What I mean by Fudge having evil mojo is that he has some evilness in 
his person which is causing him to do things that don't feel right or 
good.  Whether or not this is intentional remains to be seen.

<snip first scenario>

"rane_ab" later wrote:

>If Fudge's behaviour *isn't* due to the fact that he likes his 
>office too much, then what could possibly be his motive? 

I'm not sure.  This is just a gut feeling.  Maybe it's just 
Evil!Fudge.  I'm waiting for him to get really nasty in OoP.

I'm sure that his bureaucratic self-preservation ideals are helping 
to drive this behavior along, but like I said before, I just can't 
see all his actions being chalked up to it.  I also can't see it all 
stemming from his lack of smarts or being utterly obtuse to the 
situation.  I think Fudge is smarter than a lot of people give him 
credit for, and we'll see this in the next book.   I could be wrong 
though.

I definitely don't think Fudge is in league with Voldemort, but his 
inaction (to me) is almost as bad as perpetrating all the heinous 
activities that VM is about to do.  

bowlwoman