In Defense of Scrimgeour & Offense against DD

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 179586

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "muscatel1988" <cottell at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn@> wrote:
> >
> > > Pippin:
> > > Dumbledore did try to get the Ministry to realize that Morfin 
was 
> > > the wrong man <snip>
> > 
> > a_svirn:
> > I don't remember that from canon.
> 
> It's in "A Sluggish Memory": " 'However, I was able to secure a 
visit
> to Morfin in the last weeks of his life, by which time I was
> attempting to discover as much as I could about Voldemort's past.  I
> extracted this memory [of Tom's visit to the Gaunt house at the time
> the Riddle family get murdered - Mus] with difficulty.  When I saw
> what it contained, I attempted to use it to secure Morfin's release
> from Azkaban.  Before the Ministry reached their decision, however,
> Morfin died.' " [HBP UKhb: 344]
> 
> If you believe him, that is.  <eg>
> 
> Mus, who would have difficulty at this stage believing DD's word 
that
> fire is hot.

a_svirn:
My bad, I confused Morfin's situation with that of Hokey. Because 
Dumbledore didn't say anything of trying to free her. You are right, 
however, I don't believe Dumbledore. By the time he finished with 
both of them, they were probably in no better state than Berta 
Jorkins.