Think about Neville

[Talisman]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> Anne:
>   That doesn't tell us anything about the person who did the
> > sending, now, does it?  You may immediately imagine Lucius 
> MalfoySnip

> Pippin:
> Lucius? But why make a big mystery out of him? We already 
> know he's a DE. Besides, if he was the one who sent the 
> Lestranges after the Longbottoms, then why did Voldemort chew 
> Lucius out for not trying to find him? No, that "sent" is the 
>biggest clue yet that Voldemort's shadowy second-in-command is  an 
> undiscovered traitor to the Light. 
> > Pippin

Talisman, who has never understood why OoP convinced people to drop 
the ESE! arguments, asks: 

Can you say Fudge?

A certain little someone who had lofty aspirations to be Minister of 
Magic; who socialized with the Crouch family and knew a thing or 
two; who benefited mightily when Jr. was busted and heir-apparent 
Sr.'s career trajectory went lateral? (Not to mention any positive 
light the law enforcement coup might have shed on the Junior 
Minister for Magical Catastrophes.)  Someone who seemed a tad eager 
to soul suck the little pawn in his plan?

Dear Cornelius must have had some way to set the thing in motion.  
Was he a high-ranking DE, after all? Or, did he simply have the ear 
of one? Mightn't he have had a means of access to whatever the 
Ministry knew of the prophecy? Or, did his DE friend provide that, 
too?  All in a clever little plan to get Fudge to the throne, with 
Lucius holding the reins.   After all, now that the Dark Lord has 
gone pffffft, someone has to rule the WW....

Talisman, saying, next you can start wondering why Fudge let Sirius 
out of Azkaban, in order to facilitate soul sucking him, too.