ESE!Fudge

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 113424

Kneasy wrote: 
> How to get rid of Crouch? He's honest, upright, severe. 
> So compromise him. 
> Arrange it so that his son is picked up with a few fringe 
supporters.
> Crouch  has two options - either go easy on his son, in which case 
cry
> nepotism and force him to resign, or act as tough, if not tougher, 
with
> his own son. Distasteful; start  a whispering campaign. His 
popularity, 
> already low, plummets. He resigns, partly because of that and 
partly
> through shame and grief.


Potioncat:
And assuming you have L. Malfoy as the mastermind in this case, he 
also gets rid of the witch and wizards who would be most likely to 
cause trouble from a DE point of view within the post LV world.  And 
IMHO, the last thing he'd want is anyone looking to bring LV back. 
So he's solved several problems at once.