Dunderheads, Mrs. Figg, and the Hearing (was Chaper 8)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 88409

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sea Change" <nakedkali at y...> 
wrote:

Sea Change:
 
> What's being missed IMO in most of this thread and its ancestors is
> that getting 50 free-willed humans, each of which is important 
enough
> to belong on any deliberating body, to actually meet for a special
> session is like herding cats.  Perhaps it seems this way to me 
because
> I am foolish enough in RL to have belonged to several volunteer
> non-profit boards.  In my experience it is a difficult undertaking,
> and never happens in an information vaccuum. Dumbledore couldn't 
have
> been surprised by this meeting.

Geoff:
He wasn't. Harry had been advised way back at the time of the 
Dementor attack that the hearing was scheduled for 9 am on the 12th 
August. It was the moving of the hearing to 8 am in a different 
courtroom which caught Harry and Arthur Weasley wrong-footed. I have 
always suspected that Fudge did this deliberately in an attempt to 
frame Harry judging by his reaction when Dumbledore arrived.