Fudge and the Daily Prophet

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 85099

silver_owl_01 wrote:
> > I just reread GoF and I noticed something a little odd. 
> > 
> > How come Fudge is able to force the Daily Prophet to change it's
> > editorial line to attack Harry and Dumbledore in OotP but he can't
> > stop them from taring him and the MoM a new one over the Quiddich 
> > Cup debacle?
<snip>

aussie:
> The change to the Daily Prophet happened after the 3rd task in GoF. 
> - Rita had disappeared and didn't submit a story to the paper.
<snip other things that had happened>

Annemehr:
I think that's your main reason right there.  Rita, who had been very 
hard on the MoM, suddenly disappears.  The Daily Prophet don't know 
that Hermione had captured her, and they wouldn't believe it if 
someone had told them, anyway.  Maybe they were worried that Fudge 
had something to do with silencing her -- and I mean by power of his 
position, not by kidnap or murder or anything like that.  They may 
have believed that he "had something on her" and blackmailed her into 
silence.  The only other person with real power that Rita had 
attacked was Dumbledore, and he doesn't seem to have ever given them 
any reason to fear him.

I do agree that Lucius Malfoy had a lot to do with how all this 
worked out, and the Daily Prophet would be only too happy to continue 
the line Rita had begun in bashing Harry and Dumbledore.

Annemehr