Do you know what I haven’t seen anybody make a theory on?
Why the Ministry was all buddy-buddy with the Golden Trio during the beginning of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Oh, sure, it wasn’t explicit, but if you read between the lines—
- Fudge himself granted Harry a pardon for doing underage magic.
- The Ministry allowed a young teenager to gain possession of a valuable artifact (the timeturner) for her own personal gain.
- And do you honestly think the Weasleys just happened to win this random raffle that gave them a bunch of money? Isn’t it more likely that the Ministry just set it up as a way to make them happy?
The only thing I can think of is that they wanted to make these three happy because they knew they were at the center of the Ministry’s huge screwup the year before (Hermione was petrified, Ginny (aka: Ron’s sister) was taken, and Harry was nearly killed trying to save them all.) The Ministry constantly pointed fingers but didn’t do anything to help and multiple children/teenagers nearly died as a result. So during the summer, they discreetly interacted with these children/teenagers, doing them favors to make them subconsciously like the Ministry, enough so that they don’t rise up and revolt.
Huh. I took canon at it’s word that they let Harry off easy for Marge because they were worried about Sirius Black being after him, and I’ve long assume that someone (Dumbledore) rigged the sweepstakes (and possibly suggested seeing Bill in Egypt specifically, a hot sunny place, rather than Charlie in Romania) to help Ginny recover.
But I never considered Hermione’s time-turner as being related, before, and you know, I can see that. And if they didn’t think she was going to drop any of her classes, they might’ve considered it as multiple-years of insurance, “make a fuss about the petrifaction and we revoke time-turner privileges”.
I wonder if the Ministry meddled with Colin, Justin, and Penelope as well?
(would they even care about Filch making a fuss over Mrs. Norris?)
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