When will the ministry start kicking butt and taking names? / Percy

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 146752

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tropicwhale" <tropicwhale at y...> 
wrote:
> "tropicwhale":
> Probably after all the dust settles, The Ministery are nothing 
> but a bunch of ninnies. They are kicking butt and taking names, 
> just the wrong ones, like that stan boy from the Knight bus and 
> Mundungus Fletcher. They are just too afraid of the Deatheaters 
> to do anything proper, although I am still hoping Percy will 
> come to his senses and return to his family. He was in Gryffindor, 
> and there is no one braver that a man who can admit willing that 
> he was wrong. I just hope Percy will come through in the end.
>
Jen D. here:
There is also another thing that may be going on. There are likely LV 
sympathizers in the MOM. After all, Lucius Malfoy was a great friend 
of Fudge's and you can't get higher than that. We still don't know 
where everyone stands. I know he's not in the picture any longer, but 
Bagman had DE connections (nevermind his "trial," remember when the 
Trio tell him that DE's are terrorizing people at the campsite? What 
does he say? "Damn them!" Not surprise or shock, but anger at their 
behavior. Wonderful bit of misdirection on JKR's part...)So the MOM's 
wrong-headed decisions may be more calculated in some respects than we 
realize.
Jen D