What was DU hiding?

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No: HPFGUIDX 116042


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...> wrote:
> 
> Since several people picked up on my Fred and George question at the 
> end of the last chapter discussion, thought I'd throw my other one 
> out there for seperate discussion, just cause I want to know what 
> y'all think. 
> Anyway, DU states in OP that her fire is the only fire in Hogwarts 
> that isn't being monitered by the MoM. Why is that? As loyal to the 
> Ministry as she is, what could she be saying that she doesn't want 
> anyone, even the people on her own side, to hear? Or are there other 
> ways to monitor the floo network other than the specified panel? And 
> why would she take the risk (she of the Quibbler banning and 
> Educational Decrees and Dementor siccing) that someone would break 
> into the office to use her fire for private conversations? Is she 
> hiding something? Or has the "DU is a DE" speculation (and all these 
> marathon Red Sox-Yankees games) finally gotten to my head? 
> Meri

Amazing games, no?

And an interesting question. 

DU as DE seems like the LEAST interesting choice, it seems to me. If all the bad guys are 
simply LV's lapdogs, then life is pretty simple. But if supposedly good or neutral folks can 
turn out to be that horrible--and DU is, it seems to me, the most despicable villain we've 
encountered so far; LV seems almost benign in comparison--then who knows what's 
going to happen? 

It seems most likely to me that DU's motivation at having her Floo untapped is a) a show 
of power (HAHA! I am the High Inquisitor, and I'm watching you, but no one dare watch 
me!) and a general rather than a specific paranoia. I just think she doesn't like the idea of 
people snooping on her, poor dear.

Also, she is apparently filing confidential reports with Fudge on a regular basis, and 
doesn't wish these to be overheard, since, after all, DD has spies everywhere, perhaps 
even in the Floo Regulation office. Well, he DOES have spies everywhere. He certainly has 
fingers in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and the Dept. of Misuse of Muggle 
Artifacts. Who knows where else his tentacles reach!

As US Senator Joe McCarthy showed us all, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean 
they're not out to get you.