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earlier.

'Yes, alive,' said Fudge. That is -I
don't know -is
a man
alive if he can't be killed? I don't really understand it, and
Dumbledore won't explain properly -but
anyway, he's
certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing,
so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he's
alive.'
The Prime Minister did not know what to say to this, but a
persistent habit of wishing to appear well-informed on any
subject that came up made him cast around for any details he
could remember of their previous conversations.

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17



'Is Serious Black with -er
-He
Who Must Not Be Named?'

'Black? Black?' said Fudge distractedly, turning his bowler
rapidly in his fingers. 'Sirius Black, you mean? Merlin's beard,
no. Black's dead. Turns out we were -er
-mistaken
about
Black. He was innocent after all. And he wasn't in league with
He Who Must Not Be Named either. I mean,' he added defensively,
spinning the bowler hat still faster, 'all the evidence
pointed -we
had more than fifty eye-witnesses -but
anyway,
as I say, he's dead. Murdered, as a matter of fact. On Ministry
of Magic premises. There's going to be an inquiry,
actually ...'

To his great surprise, the Prime Minister felt a fleeting stab
of pity for Fudge at this point. It was, however, eclipsed
almost immediately by a glow of smugness at the thought
that, deficient though he himself might be in the area of
materialising out of fireplaces, there had never been a murder
in any of the government departments under his charge ...
not yet, anyway ...

While the Prime Minister surreptitiously touched the wood