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The Minister of Magic. When Harry meets him after running away from the Dursleys, he finds Fudge to be a very different person than he was expecting: Fudge acts fatherly towards Harry and seems concerned only for Harry's safety. He tries to brush off the discrepancies Harry notices between how he was treated the year before and how he's treated this summer when he breaks the law forbidding underage magic, but Fudge refuses to level with Harry or tell him the truth. Though Fudge, like most other wizards, dislikes the dementors, he sees them as a necessary part of his job and authorizes them to use the Dementor's Kiss on Sirius Black if they find him. When Harry tries to tell Fudge what he discovered about Sirius and clear his name, Fudge is unwilling to listen and remains convinced that his version of events is correct.
Cornelius Fudge Quotes in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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Chapter Three
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But this didn't tally at all with Harry's past dealings with the Ministry of Magic. "Last year, I got an official warning just because a house-elf smashed a pudding in my uncle's house!" he told Fudge, frowning. "The Ministry of Magic said I'd be expelled from Hogwarts if there was any more magic there!"
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Chapter Four
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"The guards told Fudge that Black's been talking in his sleep for a while now. Always the same words: 'He's at Hogwarts...he's at Hogwarts.' Black is deranged, Molly, and he wants Harry's dead. If you ask me, he thinks murdering Harry will bring You-Know-Who back to power. Black lost everything the night Harry stopped You-Know-Who, and he's had twelve years alone in Azkaban to brood on that."
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Chapter Twenty-One
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"Yes, I do," said Dumbledore quietly. "But I have no power to make other men see the truth, or to overrule the Minister of Magic..."
Harry stared up into the grave face and felt as though the ground beneath him were falling sharply away. He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything. He had expected Dumbledore to pull some amazing solution out of thin air. But no...their last hope was gone."
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Cornelius Fudge Quotes in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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Chapter Three
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But this didn't tally at all with Harry's past dealings with the Ministry of Magic. "Last year, I got an official warning just because a house-elf smashed a pudding in my uncle's house!" he told Fudge, frowning. "The Ministry of Magic said I'd be expelled from Hogwarts if there was any more magic there!"
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Chapter Four
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"The guards told Fudge that Black's been talking in his sleep for a while now. Always the same words: 'He's at Hogwarts...he's at Hogwarts.' Black is deranged, Molly, and he wants Harry's dead. If you ask me, he thinks murdering Harry will bring You-Know-Who back to power. Black lost everything the night Harry stopped You-Know-Who, and he's had twelve years alone in Azkaban to brood on that."
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Chapter Twenty-One
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"Yes, I do," said Dumbledore quietly. "But I have no power to make other men see the truth, or to overrule the Minister of Magic..."
Harry stared up into the grave face and felt as though the ground beneath him were falling sharply away. He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything. He had expected Dumbledore to pull some amazing solution out of thin air. But no...their last hope was gone."
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