Something wrong with this Fudge

[dcgmck]

No: HPFGUIDX 107518

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> Jim:
> > Is Fudge evil? I think so. I just don't think he's a DE or a mole, 
> > or that major a player any more.
> > 
> > JKR is character-driven.  Know her characters and you can predict a
> > lot of what they'll do.
> 
> 
> SSSusan:
> But that's just it--I'm afraid we *can't* always know her 
> characters.  The ones we know best--Harry, Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, 
> etc.--I suppose have become fairly predictable to us.  But it's that 
> *not*-knowing, in fact, our inability to fully know because of what 
> JKR has chosen to leave out, that makes it impossible to fully 
> predict the actions of people like Snape, Ludo Bagman, Lucius 
> Malfoy,....  And I'd add Fudge.  The speculation is part of trying to 
> figure out whether we *can* know him better than we'd thought.


dcgmck:
Having lots of fun reading the various streams pouring out of this 
topic, but I have to beg to differ with this last assertion that 
either Bagman or Malfoy is unpredictable.  We hear two different 
takes on Bagman before we ever see him in GoF and Malfoy is...well, a 
man of "bad faith" from the get-go, with no sign of changing.  Even 
LV notes this at the end of GoF when the DEs are recalled and called 
to an accounting.