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Cindy wrote:
As I said before, I'm convinced that Bagman will turn out to be an evil DE after all. Caroline is on board, ::waves to Caroline:: but maybe a few others can be persuaded to see Bagman as the Longstanding Devoted Servant of the Dark Lord that he really is.
::Elkins removes the pipe from her mouth and squints speculatively over the top of her spectacles at Cindy::
So...Cindy. Tell me now, in all honesty.
Do you like Ludo Bagman?
::puts pipe away::
Wow. You know, you really do make a good case for this? I think that I'm starting to believe it.
Dammit.
Because you see, I really don't want Bagman to be guilty. I really, really don't. Not because I have any particular liking for the man (I have no feelings at all about him one way or the other; he's an utter flat-liner for me), but because I would like to believe that somewhere, somewhere out there, there is at least one person who honestly was bewitched or threatened or coerced or just plain duped into serving Voldemort's cause. One. Just one. One would be nice.
I mean, we've got Malfoy and Avery, right? Both of them acquitted because they claimed to have been acting under the Imperius Curse.
Guilty, guilty, guilty.
And then we've got all their DE buddies, similarly acquitted.
Guilty.
And then we've got Pettigrew, who claimed to have been terrorized and browbeaten and threatened until he agreed to pass on information to Voldemort...but who actually turns out to have been deeply enough involved to be sporting the Dark Mark.
Oh, SO guilty!
And then there's young Master Crouch, who even Sirius thought might have been caught in the wrong place in the wrong time, and who even Dumbledore thought might have really been innocent, and who screamed his innocence at the top of his lungs all the way through his trial...
Oh, no. He's guilty. And mad, to boot.
You see where I'm going here, I trust. It's a little disturbing, isn't it? Was there really no one serving this guy unwittingly, or even unwillingly? Didn't anyone really get duped? For heaven's sake, where are all of the patsies and the weaklings?
Yeah, yeah. I know. The patsies and the weaklings are all hanging out in the Green Room, getting sympathy hugs and cookies from the Bleeding Hearts.
—Elkins, patting one of Mulciber's Imperius victims on the back while murmuring soothingly: "Now, now...there, there...I know, I know...it wasn't your fault..."
Posted to HPfGU by Elkins on January 28, 2002 12:23 AM
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