[HPforGrownups] Re: ESE!Fudge

[feklar]

No: HPFGUIDX 113468

HAnnah:

> Crouch Jr. is a fanatical LV supporter - would he have gone along
> with anything that Malfoy, who'd immediately run to the ministry
> pleading the imperio curse, suggested?  Also, Bella and company are
> hardly 'fringe' supporters.  They're the loyalest of the lot.
> I think this is why the other DEs wanted to get rid of them.  By
> seeing that Crouch Jr. and Bella got sent to Azkaban, they removed
> the fanatical DEs who weren't just going to let things rest, and
> were either going to suceed in resurrecting LV, or just run around
> making trouble for the other ex-death eaters, who were trying to
> build up a veneer of respectability.
>
> So the other DEs arrange for this loyal faction to be identified as
> the torturers of the Longbottoms.  It's a dead cert they'll all be
> thrown into Azkaban.  The discrediting of Crouch Sr. is a useful
> extra consequence of this.  They'd have had to find another way
> otherwise.

Feklar:

I don't have a book with me, but weren't they all caught at the scene of the
crime?  Malfoy or one of the others dropping the dime on them does make
sense to me.  Another reason that occurs to me:   There was a vacuum for the
social and political leadership of pureblood elitists.  By getting rid of
the others Malfoy may have gotten rid of competitors for that leadership.

Feklar