Fudge

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No: HPFGUIDX 116108


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "amycrn4230" <amycrn4230 at y...> wrote:
> I love to read your ramblings Kneasy, but you say "It ain't enough", 
> and I want to ask "what next?" Sure, he had stupid little Fudge 
> eating outta his hands for a while...he basically has had everyone 
> eating outta his hands for a while...but I think the table is a 
> turnin' and he better pull out his big guns for the next go around. 
> LV that is.
> The way I see it, he is playing his own chess game, and Fudge was but 
> a wee little pawn...That Potter kid has already outed him to his DE's 
> that he is not a pure-blood himself...now, that might not have sunk 
> in to them right away, but you know there is something fishy about 
> that Potter kid...he has managed to make LV look like a total phony 
> on many occasions so far, and has also made pretty good work of his 
> followers too. I mean they got poo-poo'd on in the MOM by some 
> kiddied in the DA. Uh oh...Malfoy is in jail...oooh, this should have 
> been easier...I thought it was in the bag....guess not....Malfoy is 
> thinking....this ain't where I want to be, and I have been listening 
> to a part mudblood? Hmmmmmm....So, there will undoubtedly be more 
> Fudge's along the way...maybe in the form of Ludo Bagman? That 
> Umbridge woman? who knows, but I am interested to see if LV can 
> really pull his stuff together and fight the big fight himself, or 
> just end up looking like he got "Pottered" on! :) Personally...I 
> think something smells rotten! 
> 

Could well be;  for the sneaky, devious mind anything is possible.

How about another little twist?
When Fudge ascended to glory in the Ministry, and assuming that it
was the remaining DEs who  helped to get him there, who was the
mastermind for this dastardly plot? Sure as hell it wasn't Voldy, he
wasn't around and very few expected him to come back. 
Wanna place bets on Malfoy?

So is/was Fudge there to further Voldy's agenda - or Malfoy's? - which
might not be the same thing at all. There is that pointed remark in
the Graveyard - 
"Lucius, my slippery friend...[...] your exploits at the QWC were fun, 
I daresay...but might not your energies have been better directed 
towards finding and aiding your master? [...] I expect more faithful
service in future."

Lucius has already made one power-play - TR's diary. He must have
known that the diary would cause mayhem, why else slip it into
Ginny's books? And it looked for a while as if DD would be out on 
his ear, Hogwarts closed down, all with the connivance of the Ministry, 
leaving Malfoy pulling all the strings.

And it appears that Diary!Tom is a different entity to Voldy (JKR won't
let on what would have happened if D!T had been successful in
draining the life force from Ginny - something we'll find out later,
she  says) My own theories regarding Possessed!Tom are compatible
with this; D!T is Tom pure and simple, Tom before his mind was 
invaded, but Voldy is Tom plus Sally essence.
The first Malfoy might be able to manipulate and influence - he's only
a spiteful schoolkid after all; the second? No chance. Too powerful. 

While the cat's away, the mice will play. And Malfoy is playing a very
dangerous game. He would much prefer that he was the puppetmaster
behind the Minister, all it costs is cash - than go through all this tedious
fighting stuff. After all, you can lose a war and the consequences might 
be a bit too permanent for his liking. Get outed (as he was in PoA) and 
you're still on your feet and you can try again when nobody's looking.

Above all Malfoy is the survivor type. Before the end I expect him to 
make overtures towards DD, maybe even in the next book if it looks
as if Voldy is going down the tubes or his own safety is in jeopardy. 
Would you trust him? "The smiler with the knife under his cloak."

Bagman. Oh, yes. I fully expect that creep to turn up again, if only
to get his just desserts. But he may turn up as a dangerous  agent
of the enemy. How would it be if he distracted Ron by offering to
get him taken on as a player by the Chuddley Cannons? With Harry,
Hermione and perhaps DD being against it?
Could cause quite a split.

Kneasy