Caring about people

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 184570

> Montavilla47:
> He has to go confund Mundungus 
> in order to get his information--which is, again, silly.  Why is
> Dumbledore's killer able to stroll into random pubs to bend 
> elbows with someone who just broke out of Azkaban?  Isn't 
> the Ministry looking for these people?

Zara:
And Lucius, another Azkaban fugitive, is living in his own house, 
which also hosts none other than Lord Voldemort himself, at least for 
the occasional meeting. You may find this all too much to swallow, 
but it is not there solely in the 7 Potters chapter, or solely in 
service to it. I think it is there too as more demonstration, as if 
more were needed, of the Ministry's ineffectualness. 

> Montavilla47:
> We're
> asked to believe that the entire world is counting on 
> Harry, and that the Ministry is putting extra protection
> on several safe-houses.... but yet, it wouldn't be safe to
> use the Ministry floo network. 

Zara:
Actually, we are not asked to believe this. It is the Order 
protecting the safehouses by themselves, and not trusting the 
Ministry's Floo network either. The Ministry believes the same tale 
Yaxley was trying to sell Voldemort, that Harry is leaving on another 
day. The relevance of the Ministry to the safe houses, as I 
understood it, is that only the Ministry has the special magical 
and/or legal powers to break through the safehouse spells, so while 
it stands, however ineffectually, Voldemort is not able to penetrate 
that magic. When the Ministry falls, the DEs are right there at the 
Burrow on the heels of Kingsley's Patronus.