Fudge: Evil or what? The evil of cowardice

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 107127

Jim Ferer wrote:
>> Are you suggesting the only credible explanation for Sirius's 
escape is that Fudge arranged it? Why is Sirius's story unbelievable? 
How many unregistered dog Animagi have there been in Azkaban who 
somehow didn't lose their minds? My first guess: just Sirius. <<

HunterGreen:
No, I'm not suggesting that. Sirius escaped after thirteen years, so 
it was *needed* that he have a reason that he didn't lose his mind. 
Another person sentenced to life in Azkaban could break out say, 
their first day and not have lost their mind yet. AND, I don't really 
see why it was *necessary* for him to be an animagus for his plan to 
work. All he did was slip through the bars and take off, they were 
*confused* by his animal emotions, but not altogether mystified by 
them. Its not *necessary* that he have been helped by someone, just 
that there is enough shaky in his explanation that it wouldn't be 
surprising (to me anyway) to find out later on that someone had 
(against his knowledge) helped him.


>> The other flaw in you argument is this: If Fudge is a DE, then he
knows that Sirius doesn't actually want to kill Harry; he knows that
it's Pettigrew that was the Potters' real enemy. <<

I don't think that Fudge is a DE at all. I see him as being 
more 'sympathetic to their cause', meaning that he doesn't report to 
Voldemort, but assists on his own terms. Besides, by your argument 
Snape ought to have known that Sirius wasn't a DE. The death eaters 
usually wear masks, and when it comes to certain spy members, its 
very possible that Voldemort protects their identities more than the 
others. Even if he knew that Sirius wasn't a DE, he *didn't* know 
that it was Peter who killed all the muggles and that Peter was 
alive. Only Sirius knew that. He could have thought that Sirius was a 
completely deranged and dangerous non-DE (evil doesn't always 
mean 'death-eater').

Again, I don't think he's evil because of his actions at OotP at all. 
I think there's evidence that the dementers are out to get Harry in 
PoA, and Fudge is the most likely to have put them up to it.