Imperio'd Member of the Order

[Lliannanshe]

No: HPFGUIDX 92544

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, bufo_viridis at i... wrote:
> > ~Phyllis quoted:> 
> > "'Sturgis Podmore,'" said Hermione, breathlessly.  'Arrested for 
> > trying to get through a door.  Lucius Malfoy got him too.  I bet 
he 
> > did it the day you saw him there, Harry.  Sturgis had Moody's 
> > Invisibility Cloak, right?  So what if he was standing guard by 
the 
> > door, invisible, and Malfoy heard him move, or guessed he was 
there, 
> > or just did the Imperius Curse on the off chance that a guard was 
> > there?  So when Sturgis next had an opportunity - probably when 
it 
> > was his turn on guard duty again - he tried to get into the 
> > department to steal the weapon for Voldemort...but he got caught 
and 
> > sent to Azkaban...'"  (OoP, Chapter 26)

Lliannanshe:
Your quote doesn't convince me that Malfoy imperio'd Podmore.  How 
does Hermione know Malfoy put the curse on Podmore? Harry saw/heard 
Rookwood's confession about Bode and Malfoy.  Is Hermione assuming 
that Malfoy cursed Podmore also?  The key phrase for me was 'So what 
if...' She doesn't really know and is working out a hypothesis from a 
article in the Daily Prophet.  We really don't know what the details 
are for what happened to Podmore, YET.  

> Which bring another question: is there a spy in the Order? Because 
if Malfoy didn't hear him moving (which is one possibility), he might 
have known somebody was there - where from?
> Even Malfoy would not blast Imperii into the empty room in the MoM -
 too much explaining to be done, too much suspicions. Even with his 
influence, it would look bad.
> 
> Cheers, Viridis
> ________________________
> Curiouser and curiouser!

Lliannanshe:
Exactly,  So what if Malfoy did put the curse on Podmore who told 
Malfoy he was there?  So what if the spy in the order imperio'd 
Podmore?  So what if Podmore was sitting by the door guarding, he 
fell asleep and the cloak slipped off?  He was sent to Azkaban for 
trespass only not breaking and entering.

Lliannanshe
Who really does like to keep her opinions to herself but couldn't let 
this one pass.