[HPforGrownups] Re: Fudge, Harry's Expulsion, and the Prophecy

[Juli]

No: HPFGUIDX 130818

JLV WROTE: (...edited...)

Fudge thought that the terms of the prophecy had 
*already* been fulfilled when Harry was one year old.
As far as Fudge was concerned, Voldemort was dead and
could not return, *ever*. This smacks of a lack of
thought about all the stuff about marking as equal
etc, but as prophecies are generally vague, it is not
unforgivable. Why think that a 'dead' man has come
back to life? 


Juli again: 
I don't think so, Fudge (like most of the
wizards, IMO), believe that LV is gone, but not death,
he's heard the rumors, he used to listen to DD, he
can't be that stupid (or can he?). I think Fudge
doesn't want to believe, but deep down I think he
*knows* LV is back, it's just easier to ignore DD and
Harry than to actually face the fact that LV is back
with all his strengh, Sirius says something like this
in GoF (when he meets HRH at Hogsmade) and Arthur
Weasley also explains at the Quidditch world cup what
it would mean to have LV back. 

IMO of course

Juli


		
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