ESE!Fudge

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 113401

mhbobbin:
> > I agree that Fudge is a bad'un.   I think the real debate is 
> > whether Fudge is evil because he is an incompetent and corrupt 
> > politician willing to do anything to hold onto power, or if he 
> > is evil as in  Death Eater. 

Caius: 
> If Fudge were a conscious agent of the Dark Lord, why hasn't this 
> spot of dialogue taken place?
> 
> THE TIME: Beginning of Book Five. THE SCENE: Minister of Magic's 
> office. VOLDEMORT & FUDGE are discovered enjoying a cognac and 
> smoking long Havana cigars
> 
> VOLDEMORT: It sure feels good being resurrected. I can hardly wait 
> to unleash all my fell plans.
> 
> FUDGE: Mi casa es su casa, Lord Voldemort. Anything I can do to 
> assist, you just lay it on me, bro.
> 
> VOLDEMORT: As a matter of fact, I'm glad you bought that up. 
> There's this prophecy in the Ministry of Magic about me and the 
> Potter lad I'm simply dying to hear. I've only heard snippets of 
> it here and there up to now. I suspect it might contain some very 
> useful information that would assist me in my – I mean, of course, 
> our campaign. Do you think some Legilimency against the Potter lad 
> might assist in this?
> 
> FUDGE: Oh, I'm sure it would, but I hate to see you go through all 
> that bother. Hey, here's an idea – I've got clearance for all the 
> top-security areas, being Minister and all that – why don't we 
> just pop down to the Dept. of Mysteries, and you can pluck it off 
> the shelf yourself.
> 
> VOLDEMORT: Ripping idea, Minister, just ripping. Lead on, my 
> friend.
> 
> (The two exit to the Dept. of Mysteries to hear the Prophecy. THE 
> END)
> 
> If we assume ESE!Fudge, we have to assume there's some obstacle 
> that prevents Fudge from accessing the DOM – something that even 
> the DA was able to easily do.
 

SSSusan:
*Love* the dialogue, Caius, though of course it's not surprising 
from a master filker. :-)

I'm one of the ones who's been arguing in favor of ESE!Fudge, but 
I've also never believed he was a DE. You make an excellent point 
that, if he had been, it would make little sense for Voldy not to 
have asked him to take some pretty major, direct actions to advance 
his rise back to power.  Fudge has done some things which I think go 
beyond the bumbling, waffling, power-hungry politician--things which 
I think really can be interpreted as (or hypothesized to be) evil--
but just as Dolores Umbridge may well be evil but not be a DE, so 
with Fudge.  As Sirius said, the world isn't divided into good 
people and Death Eaters [paraphrased].  Fudge is, imo, at a similar 
place on the good-evil spectrum as the DEs, without actually being 
one of them.

I wonder what would happen if Voldy or one of his minions actually 
attempted to *recruit* Fudge at this point?  Want to write us some 
dialogue for *that* possibility? 

Siriusly Snapey Susan