Fudge och ministeriet
Fudge vägrade att tro på något som han inte vill vara sant. Naturligtvis hade Fudge en förklaring för sig själv att tro på att Barty Crouch jr. agerade ensamt. Detta gjorde det möjligt för honom att tro att medan några hemska händelser hade inträffat, hade allt löst sig och allmän ordning hade inte varit upprörd.
"Why he killed them? Well, that's no mystery, is it?" blustered Fudge. "He was a raving lunatic! From what Minerva and Severus have told me, he seems to have thought he was doing it all on You- Know-Who's instructions!"
"Lord Voldemort was giving him instructions, Cornelius,"
Dumbledore said. "[...] Voldemort has been restored to his body."
Fudge looked as though someone had just swung a heavy weight into his face. Dazed and blinking, he stared back at Dumbledore as if he couldn't quite believe what he had just heard. He began to sputter, still goggling at Dumbledore.
"You-Know-Who . . . returned? Preposterous. Come now, Dumbledore . . ."
[...]
"You fool!" Professor McGonagall cried. "Cedric Diggory! Mr. Crouch! These deaths were not the random work of a lunatic!"
"I see no evidence to the contrary!" shouted Fudge, now matching her anger, his face purpling. "It seems to me that you are all determined to start a panic that will destabilize everything we have worked for these last thirteen years!"
[...]
"You are blinded," said Dumbledore, his voice rising now, the aura of power around him palpable, his eyes blazing once more, "by the love of the office you hold, Cornelius! [...]"
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, chapter 36, "The Parting of the Ways"
Fudge ville inte att Voldemort skulle ha återvänt, så han vägrade att tro att det hade hänt.
It seemed Fudge could think of no answer to this. He rocked backward and forward on his small feet for a moment and spun his bowler hat in his hands. Finally, he said, with a hint of a plea in his voice, "He can't be back, Dumbledore, he just can't be . . ."
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The Wizarding World
Så Fudge hade en förklaring för sig att klamra sig på. Han hade också en förklaring till trollkarlen i allmänhet.
Triwizard turneringen var känd för att vara farlig, dödlig jämn. Detta ansågs till och med vara acceptabelt tills dödsavgiften monterades för högt .
"The Triwizard Tournament was first established some seven hundred years ago as a friendly competition between the three largest European schools of wizardry: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang. A champion was selected to represent each school, and the three champions competed in three magical tasks. The schools took it in turns to host the tournament once every five years, and it was generally agreed to be a most excellent way of establishing ties between young witches and wizards of different nationalities — until, that is, the death toll mounted so high that the tournament was discontinued."
Dumbledore explaining the Triwizard Tournament in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, chapter 12, "The Triwizard Tournament"; emphasis mine.
Naturligtvis är vi nu århundraden senare.
"There have been several attempts over the centuries to reinstate the tournament," Dumbledore continued [...]
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Men det är fortfarande farligt.
"[...] the tournament tasks will still be difficult and dangerous, whatever precautions we take [...]"
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Sammantaget kan Cedrics död vara uppkallad till hans deltagande i en farlig turnering som har varit känd att orsaka dödsfall i sina tidigare avbetalningar.