Memorable Quotes from Sian Thomas
2 quotesDescription of the Dementor Attack
Amelia Bones
Please describe the attack. What did they look like?
Mrs. Figg
Well one of them was very large, and the other rather skinny.
Fudge
Not the boys, the Dementors!
Mrs. Figg
Alright, right, well um, big. Cloaked. Then everything went cold, as though all the happiness had gone from the world.
Fudge
Now look here, Dementors don't just wander into a Muggle suburb and happen across a wizard, the odds are astronomical.
Dumbledore
I don't think anyone would believe the Dementors were there by coincidence, Minister.
Umbridge
I'm sure I must have misunderstood you, Professor. Dementors are after all under the control of the Ministry of Magic. So silly of me but it sounded, for a moment, as though you were suggesting that the Ministry had ordered the attack on this boy.
[clears her throat]
Dumbledore
That would be disturbing indeed, Madame Undersecretary, which is why I'm sure the Ministry will be mounting a full-scale inquiry into why the two Dementors were so far away from Azkaban and why they mounted an attack without authorization. Of course, there is someone who might be behind the attack. Cornelius, I implore you to see reason. The evidence of the Dark Lord's return is incontrovertible.
Fudge
He's not back!
Dumbledore
In the matter of Harry Potter, the law clearly states that magic may be used before Muggles in life-threatening situations.
Fudge
Laws can be changed if necessary, Dumbledore!
Dumbledore
Clearly, it has become practice to hold a full criminal trial to deal with a simple matter of under-age magic.
Amelia Bones
Those in favor of conviction? Those in favor of clearing the accused of all charges?
[Fudge raises his hand followed by some other people including Umbridge]
Fudge
Cleared of all charges.
[reluctantly; as he bangs his gavel]
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Dumbledore Addresses Charges at the Hearing
Dumbledore
Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric... Brian... Dumbledore.
Fudge
You-you got our message that the time and place of the hearing had been changed, did you?
Dumbledore
I must have missed it. But by a happy mistake, I arrived at the Ministry three hours early. The charges?
[Pause]
Fudge
The charges against the accused are as follows; that he did knowingly and in full awareness of the illegality of his actions, produced a Patronus charm in the presence of a Muggle. Do you deny producing said Patronus?
Harry
No, I—
Fudge
And you were aware that you were forbidden to use magic outside school while under the age of seventeen?
[deliberately interrupting Harry]
Harry
Yes, but—
Fudge
Witches and wizards of the Wizengamot—
Harry
I was only doing it because of the Dementors!
Amelia Bones
Dementors? In Little Whinging?
Fudge
That's quite clever. Muggles can't see Dementors, can they boy? Highly convenient.
Harry
I'm not lying! There were two of them, and if I hadn't—
Fudge
Enough! I'm sorry to interrupt what I'm sure would have been a very well rehearsed story, but since you can produce no witnesses of the event—
[interrupting Harry again]
Dumbledore
Pardon me, Minister, but as it happens, we can.
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