In Defense of Scrimgeour & Offense against DD

[muscatel1988]

No: HPFGUIDX 179591

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lizzyben04" <lizzyben04 at ...> wrote:
> 
> Oh, yeah, DD is chilling. I love how he says that by the time he 
> managed to extract her memory, Hokey's life was almost over. LOL, 
> yeah, and by the time Voldemort managed to extract Bertha Jorkins' 
> memory, her life was almost over too. DD's actually technically 
> telling the truth, but in such a misleading way that it becomes a 
> lie. 

Mus:
It's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, isn't it? 

 
> Well, Harry has a tendency to interrupt right when people are about 
> to reveal important information. I don't think that DD was about to 
> say that the Ministry suspected her because she was a house elf, 
> because Morfin isn't a house-elf, yet he's saying that they were 
> both suspected for the same reason. Who knows, maybe they're both in 
> Slytherin? 

Mus:
Or in Slytherin by extension.  DD responds "Precisely" to Harry's "-
because she was a house-elf", so he clearly doesn't mind if Harry
misunderstands.  I assume the common reason for distrusting Morfin and
Hokey is that they're both Other, underlining thus the message that we
shouldn't categorise beings by their superficial qualities.  Where
would we be without DD to point out the moral deficiencies of others?

But that's just
Mus