ESE!Fudge

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 113368

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "feklar" <feklar at v...> 
wrote:
> 
> Feklar:
> 
> Fudge's assistance or no, I've been wondering why LV didn't 
just walk in and get it himself in the first place.  The Deatheaters 
certainly had no problems getting right to the prophecy when 
Harry went for it.  He would have had to face one unofficial OP 
guard, instead he got harry to do it and he riled up DD and the 
OP.  But if he hadn't, we wouldn't have a book...then again, my 
major gripe with OOTP was how too much of it seemed too 
trumped up.<

Indeed he could have gotten it himself. But as Bella tells us, that 
would have proved he was back, which the Ministry was 
engaged in denying. That explanation doesn't make sense if 
Fudge is a DE, because he could have blamed the theft on Harry 
and gone right on denying Voldemort's return.

But if Fudge is not a DE, and Harry obviously can't have stolen 
the prophecy because he was at Hogwarts, then Fudge will be 
faced with undeniable neutral evidence of Voldemort's return and 
he will be forced to act.

The solution for Voldemort was to lure Harry to the Department of  
Mysteries to lift the prophecy.  Once Harry had accomplished that 
little chore,  the Death Eaters would have seized the prophecy 
and returned to Voldemort, leaving Harry to account for his 
presence and the absence of the prophecy the best he could. 
Something about Voldemort torturing his ally Sirius Black right in 
the middle of the MoM? Sure, kid. Harry would have found 
himself locked up at St Mungo's with Lockhart for company.

Pippin