Deathly Hallows reread CH 1 -3

[Jerri&Dan Chase]

No: HPFGUIDX 186264


Pippin:
>But Scrimgeour was a professional investigator and the previous head of the
>auror office. If he wasn't curious about the scars on Harry's hand, or 
>about
>how two dementors came to be in a Muggle area, or who in the Ministry might
>have sent them, it's because he didn't want to know. Dumbledore (and Harry)
>tried to get Scrimgeour to see that he needed to fight corruption within 
>the
>Ministry as well as outside it, and Scrimgeour wasn't interested.
  .   .   .  SNIP  .   .   .
>Scrimgeour himself had integrity -- but he wasn't willing to enforce a
>culture of integrity at the Ministry. OTOH, though Dumbledore's own
>integrity can be questioned, he did enforce a culture of integrity at 
>Hogwarts.

Excellent points.  I had been following this thread with mixed feelings, but 
I think that Pippin has hit the nail on the head.

There is so much we don't know about what folks other than Harry know and 
feel.  And that is IMO a weakness in DH.  Without the end of book/after the 
conflict text that we have in the earlier books where a lot of things are 
explained (at least partially) we don't get resolution.  And we are set up 
never to know about Scrimgeour as he dies when he does.

But, as MoM, Scimgeour had a duty to understand what had been happening 
under Fudge.  If he was confused about Harry's hand, why didn't he ask.  If 
he knew what Umbridge had done, then why was he allowing her to remain in a 
position of power?

Jerri