CHAPDISC: DH32, The Elder Wand

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 184834

Zara wrote:
> Giants are shown to be working with Voldemort in HBP, having been 
approached and recruited by him in GoF. The Ministry, presumably,
could have made a more attractive offer to them than Hagrid was in a
position to make. This would have freed the Ministry, in HBP, from the
massive efforts of Obliviating half the West Country of England in the
wake of a giant attack disguised as a hurricane. <snip>

Carol responds:

Doesn't anyone besides me think that the Ministry *did* send an
ambassador to the giants, the same employee that the Committee for the
Disposal of Dangerous Creatures (IIRC) sent to execute Buckbeak,
Walden Macnair? Yes, he was sent by Voldemort, but he's also a
Ministry employee, a double agent like Snape, only he's loyal to the
other side.

Fudge and Lucius Malfoy are on good terms and Lucius Malfoy has a lot
of influence (maybe including the suggestion for exectioner in PoA
since he's certainly involved in the Buckbeak affair?). Fudge could
easily have mentioned Dumbledore's suggestion of visiting the Giants
as an absurd impssibility, and Lucius could easily have slipped in the
suggestion of sending Macnair, either as his own idea or Voldemort's.

It can't be a mere coincidence that Macnair is both a Ministry
employee and a Death Eater. Sure, Voldemort promises him in Gof that
he'll move on to bigger things (I don't recall the exact words, but I
wonder if both JKR and Voldemort were punning, just as they were when
Voldemort told Wormtail that some people would give their right hand
to do the job that he was assigned), but that doesn't mean that
*Fudge* didn't also send him, just as both Voldemort and Dumbledore
expected (or ordered) Snape to kill Dumbledore.

Carol, noting that Macnair may also have delivered the "pot plant" to
Bode in OoP, or so the Lexicon suggests