Something wrong with this Fudge

[mhbobbin]

No: HPFGUIDX 107515

  mcmaxslb wrote:


I don't think that Fudge is in league with Voldemort. What you have
with Fudge is what you have with allot of people in government and
other huge organizations. You have someone promoted above their
abilities and as long as things are quiet he can cope. But when a
crises happens that he knows he can't cope with instead of stepping
aside and letting someone who can take over, he pretends that the
problem does not exist. And people like this will go to great lengths
to do this. This happens in RL all the time and it is a bit of RL in
the books that JKR does well.

Mhbobbin writes:

So true. People in the position you describe--In JKR's world as well 
as real life-- will go to great lengths to preserve their power / 
reputation etc., by suppressing the truth. Suppression can be 
through denial and through more active means. Fudge though, in OOtP, 
is doing more than pretending the problem --Harry's claim that LV 
has returned--doesn't exist.  Fudge is  actively seeking to destroy 
Harry's credibility--through the media, through mis-use of the 
judiciary system, and also by positioning Umbridge at Hogwarts to 
destroy Harry's resolve and reputation, as well as general 
suppression of all dissent.  In OotP, we see Fudge using all the 
levers available to him as the Minister. I don't think Fudge is a 
DE, or trying to help LV. But something important must be at stake 
for Fudge.

Fudge has an "Order of Merlin" award.  Wonder how he got it? He was 
a Junior Minister at the time of the Sirius / Pettigrew incident.  
That was only ten years before Harry entered into Hogwarts, and now 
he's the MInister of Magic. Wonder if that award and the reputation 
that likely followed had anything to do with the Sirius / Pettigrew 
incident. If that is the case, then Fudge wouldn't be too interested 
in hearing a story about how the wrong Wizard was reeled in. And 
what if Fudge knew that he had the wrong man. He doesn't seem like 
the kind of person who would admit the mistake to free an innocent 
man.

Something is very fishy about Fudge. Even if he's not evil, even if 
he is just an incompetent protecting his reputation, he's certainly 
a dangerous man.

Has anyone given much thought to all of The Quibbler articles about 
Fudge? Is there truth in them? Partial truth? And what purpose do 
they serve?

mhbobbin