Mundungus (was Power in JKR's magic (was: Boggart/ Patronus Musings - Quote Lupin))

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 105471

Neri said:

"We see the same principal in a simpler form in Mundungus: He is 
useful because he knows all the crooks. He knows them because, as 
Sirius notes, he is a crook himself. But this is useful only because 
Mundungus will not betray DD. This was Mundungus' single non-crooked 
moral choice."


This is interesting because, on my last pass through OotP something very odd popped out at me and I'm hoping I'm completely wrong.  

After The Quibbler article came out, Fred and George daringly enlarged the cover and put it on the common room wall.  It was saying things like "the ministry are morons" and "eat dung, Umbridge."  Over the course of the evening, as the spell wore off, the poster only uttered part statements, Quote " disconnected words like 'Dung' and 'Umbridge' " Unquote We know Mundungus would sell his mother for a Knut.  Is this a shadow of him getting himself into a mess with Umbridge? Or do we all think we've seen the last of the toad-lady?  Sirius only says "But he's [Mundungus}also very loyal to Dumbledore, who helped him out of a tight spot once."  Sirius doesn't say, and personally I don't think it is intimated, that MF won't betray DD.  And he might not do it knowingly, but get himself into such a bind he can only see one way out.  Crook or not, he doesn't seem like the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree to me.

Just a passing thought.

Cathy



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