Fudge/Transfer of Power/Lily's Family

[Amey Chinchorkar]

No: HPFGUIDX 107830

-	Now Cory:
-	I think we know that new ministers do not have to come from within
-	the Ministry, don't we?  Before Fudge came to power, we know that a
-	lot of people wanted Dumbledore for Minister, but that Dumbledore
-	wasn't interested and "never applied for the job."  (OoP, p. 93, U.S.
-	version).  I'm not sure if we have canon for how long Fudge has been
-	in power, <snip>

Amey:
We know from GoF that till first war, even upto the time Lestranges were captured, Fudge was not MoM. He was member of Ministry, and Crouch Sr. was marked as next MoM, but he got discredited and Fudge got job. All in all, I think it gives Fudge around 14 years in his chair.

-	Potioncat:
-	I've got a fine toothed comb too... foreshadowing can also mean he
-	discovers something in a similar way, or discovers something similar
-	in CoS to what he will experience in HBP. He may discover a new
-	ability that also comes from LV. Who knows?

Amey:
Just a thought here, 
CoS: "If I say it myself, Harry, I've always been able to charm the people I
needed.” -TR


-	Lynette Replies :
-	See 1004802 for probably the first post suggesting this. As you
-	mentioned, Hagrid himself is a huge mystery (yeah, in every sense of
-	the word). Perhaps his lineage is why Dumbledore opted to keep him
-	around after he was expelled, and also perhaps why Lucius Malfoy was
-	so anxious to get him to Azkaban.

Amey:
If you are talking about CoS, Lucius was not at all interested in Hagrid, he was there in Hagrid’s hut because Dumbledore was there. It was Fudge who wanted to * do something*. And I don’t think Dumbledore would care for lineage either way.

-	Justine:
-	<snip>This is, of course, further evidence that Petunia is a squib, but
-	does it have any further impact on the story?  Petunia's potential
-	squibness (and her potential acquisition of magical powers later in
-	life) have been discussed long before this... is there something
-	we're missing?<snip>

Amey:
Wait a bit, this also solves one more mystery

"Knew!" shrieked Aunt Petunia suddenly. "Knew! Of course we knew! How could you not be, my dratted sister being what she was? Oh, she got a letter just like that and disappeared off to that-that school-and came home every vacation with her pockets full of frog spawn, turning teacups into rats. I was the only one who saw her for what she was—a freak! But for my mother and father, oh no, it was Lily this and Lily that, they were proud of having a witch in the family!"
This solves the mystery how Lily could easily do magic at home in vacation, if her family was magic. But the second sentence contradicts it, or is this Petunia who is afraid that Vernon will find out she has magical blood (though a squib)???

Amey




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