Where Are They Now? Character Game

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 187600

Carol earlier:
> > As far as Fudge and anyone else at the Ministry (including Scrimgeour, who must have been baffled when Harry shook his fist in his [Scrimgeour's] face),
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> Bart:
>     Do you really think that Harry would have done that if he didn't 
> believe that Scrimgeour knew damned well exactly what it was?

Carol:
Yes, I do think that. Scrimgeour has no way of knowing (Umbridge certainly wouldn't have told him), and he appears completely baffled by Harry's action.
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> Carol:
> > Carol, quite sure that Scrimgeour knew nothing about Umbridge's quill, much less her contemplated Crucio, or he would never have mentioned her to Harry, whom he was trying to recruit as a "mascot"
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> Bart:
>     Can you give any logical reason why Harry and/or Dumbledore would not have told the Ministry about her sending the dementors? And, if there is one, why we weren't told about it?

Carol responds:

Harry didn't testify against Umbridge, and Dumbledore doesn't want the Ministry interfering. We know that he talked--and quarreled_-with Scrimgeour soon after Scrimgeour took over as Minister for Magic, but that was because Scrimgeour (like Fudge at the end of his term) wanted Harry to appear to be working with the MoM. Harry, who certainly was in no mood or condition to talk to Fudge, was sent immediately to Hogwarts after the MoM battle. Dumbledore told Fudge only what he needed to know about that, including the order (no reason given) to remove Umbridge from Hogwarts. After that, Harry went directly from Hogwarts to the Dursleys and from there to the Burrow (with a detour to see Slughorn), by which time Fudge was out of office. Harry did not meet Scrimgeour until the encounter in the garden at Christmas.

Harry didn't tell Dumbledore who sent the Dementors. There's no mention of it in their, er, conversation at the end of OoP, in which Dumbledore does most of the talking. DD can hardly inform the Ministry of what he doesn't know, even if he were inclined to tell them more than he thought they needed to know.

Carol, hoping that her reasons are sufficiently logical :-)