The Life of Cornelius Fudge: The Study of a Terrible Leader (Harry Potter Explained) 

Start to an early grave muggle

@@corneliusfudge8044 what do you think of this video?

Agreed it almost made me laughed

Great start indeed

i saw this as he said it.

Fudge: let's sue Dumbledore for rejecting minister job 100 times

How does that work ?

Xehanort10 no I meant the fact that fudge wanted to sue him after dumbledore expressed his thoughts on the job. It doesn’t make any sense

Luca Forrest bro take a joke

IKR!

Fudge is dumb. I'm sure his brother, Cornelius Toffee, would be a lot smarter.

The funny thing is it’s true

Had Voldemort hadn’t gone after Harry he would not have been the Chosen One.

@@jw9565 i mean if Voldemort didn’t try and kill Harry when he was 1 he wouldn’t of “made him his equal” = the prophecy would be false from the beginning = would never happen and Voldemort would destroy the world

Fudge is so stupid

YES!

The only thing everyone in the magical world can agree on is that Fudge was a raging morass of incompetence.

And that would teach him not to make assumptions or false accusations on the innocences. Because like I always said to myself "Only a stupid idiot would go and make false accusations on the innocents". And that stupid idiot is Fudge.

"Karma's a bitch tho" - Morgan "Movieflame" Ross

and also pardoning Harry for blowing up his horrid aunt.

@@KP-zd3hc yess!

Yup, only good thing ever

He also resigned.

K P yeah true

harry should have said "no shit sherlock, he has been back for a year"

Nooooooooo.......... he’s front

My first reaction when I saw that in theaters was literally "no kidding!"

@@CRAZYMUGMAN Daily Prophet: the boy who lived, who was viciously slandered throughout the previous year, has survived an attack from he who must not be named... Hermione: yes, slander written by YOU!

I remember the whole movie crowd sighing exasperatedly when Fudge said that in the movie.

I mean it’s the same man who thought Dumbledore wanted his job even though Dumbledore clearly didn’t

Fear drives people to do terrible things.

Fudge: Dumbeldor wants my josb. Dumbeldor: If I wanted your job, you would have never steped into the office.

@@florians9949 He just wanted to demonstrate his independence from Dumbledor. Unfortunately, he was literally nothing without Dumbledor's advices - especially in the end, where he was begging Dumbledor to arrange his meeting with Harry in hopes, that it would restore his reputation, despite putting Umbridge in Hogwarts and literally doing everything to ensure, that Harry wouldn't say anything good about him.

Oh yeah. He'll train school students to take down the Ministry of Magic...

Actually, Voldemort was pretty happy with having someone so corrupt and incompetent in charge of the Ministry. For obvious reasons.

@@raistlin3462 I mean - not really. He wanted Fudge to resign so he could have his puppet take power. Or at least follow him For all of Fudge's fault's - he wasn't actively helping Voldemort, at least.

Damn if you have Voldemort like “Man that dude is too incompetent even for me” then you know you’re just a sad and sorry case.

@@RazorsharpLTvoldemort never cared about politics in first place if he showed slight of interest there was no way no one Could’ve stopped him during 1st wizarding war

Voldy was too busy with dirty POTTER! he would have pimped slapped fudge

LMAO

The actor who plays fudge does not get enough credit He plays fudge as brilliantly as Alan Rickman RIP played snape He's exactly what you picture him as in the books

Behold Metalhead Machine the preacher of fudges actor, s/he spreads their message to the depths of the comment section

@@calzod2781 man you got some issues

@@metalheadmachine4861 dude stop this is the 4 time I saw your copy pasted messeged

Him and umbridge

I k r

Da Destroyer I have been waiting for even my potter head friends to say this 💀

@@lunarbutterfly3394 How dare you! I did the best I could in the situation. And besides what do muggles know about any of this???!?!??!?!?

That is most fans

Maybe because he didn't know why it was done at first. Yes, it is considered okay to do underage magic if it's really necessary. The book revealed it was Dolores Umbridge who sent those after Harry Potter, as an attempt to get him expelled for underage magic. And technically the first time he was given a warning about improper use of magic was when Dobby made that dessert smash onto the floor. And the 6th book reveals that underage magic or magic used in the muggle world can be detected, but not immediate info who the perpetrator is. Voldemort was underage when he killed his father's side of the family with Avada Kedavra, but then he made Morfin Gaunt think he was the one who killed them. They couldn't immediately tell who the perp was before this, so Morfin was sentenced to life in Azkaban.

😂 sorry im late

@@Hello_buddy698 no problem. I forgot I commented this lmao

It’s because Harry was only useful to Fudge until he challenged his worldview. Just like Dumbledore was to Fudge.

@@Doomzdeh Nail on the head. Fudge's whole thinking is based on his fragile ego.

he’s a politician

@@charlesyang8146a good representation of a politician honestly

Dennis Day I want a biscuit

Same

Good news! I just pulled some biscuits out of the oven, and I'm making more! There on the table, take as many as you want!

Dennis Day have a what?

Daryl Franklin, Jr. shut up

🍿

Agree to disagree

Duchi But Chocolate fudge Rocks! A Chocolate Fudge would make a better Minister than Cornelius Fudge. XD

@@corneliusfudge8044 so he's back huh?

394 like...lol...imma make it 395

Justine Boyce he’s the perfection example of corrupt politicians.

Serena Chintalapati and that all politicians nowerdays all of them are there are no good ones nowerdays. the last good prime minister was winston churchill

He is pretty corrupt

@@Lior353 Winston Churchill was extremely racist and sexist, And got voted out of office as soon as World War II ended. He did good things, sure. But he was far from perfect.

@@alexisspicer3797 Chruchill is considered the best PM that Britain ever had

Exactly Why doesn’t this comment have more likes?

Uderrated comment

You just described every politician in the 21st century

Susan Wojicki in a nutshell

Imagine the Daily Prophet headline: Fudge is fcked up. He Who Must Not Be Named is Officially bAck

Welcome to politics

The writers managing to make this dude so unlikable that people start acting as if he was real is amazing. Doesn't forgive killing every good character, though.

Tell me something I don't know.

when cornelius likes umbridge you know something wrong with this minister

I was literally just thinking that.

Yup

Followed by: “Thats it. That’s all I want to say. Hit that ‘Like’ and ‘Subscribe’ button, and I’ll catch you all later“.

It all makes sense now

@@Danche925 even though Churchill died long before this story takes place? Also, Churchill wasn't a wizard, not in real life nor in this story.

@@DavidRay39 r/woooosh

@@DavidRay39 he had a magical way with words

i was thinking the same thing @Michael Jung

What lawyer?🤔 Please tell me.😌

@@ChibiProwl Miles Edgeworth

​@@chrisriley2321Thanks

@@ChibiProwl no problem

Correction for the 1st time in 14 Years Voldemort wasn't vulnerable. Even a preemptive strike wouldn't have stopped him because of the 6 Surviving Horcruxes. Fudge acknowledging things could have led to him executing Bellatrix & the death eaters who escaped with her in Azkaban, although that was the only thing that Fudge could have done to make the war go easier.

@@bookmew1081 Even with the Horcruses, Voldemort could at least be slowed down. Remember that the Horcruxes prevent him from dying, that's it. Voldemort can't regain his body and full power by himself. Without the help of Quirrel and Wormtail, he would have probably spent the rest of his life wandering in that Albanian forest.

@@lisboahyes,but Lucius or Bellatrix could have gone and tried to get him a new body,they were some of his most loyal death eaters,so removing Quirrel and Wormtail doesn’t stop Voldemort from getting a permanent body by death eaters,think of it like the one reborn from bloodborne.

@@laurababyyy1 Except Bellatrix was in Azkaban and Lucius believed him to be gone forever. Most death eaters were either in Azkaban or just gave up on their master, so keeping Wormtail out of the picture could have prevented second prophecy from becoming a reality(one about Voldermort returning with help of his loyal servant).

Underrated comment XD

Seriously. He thought that a bunch of teenagers are capable of taking down the government? He really was a buffoon.

Fudge seemed to be self-projecting.

The post Dumbledore declined thrice.

This is called "projecting". Sorry if I missed spelled anything. I'm not good at spelling.

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Fuge dumb

Fudge deserves being sacked if he did believe that Voldemort had returned then he would be remembered as one of the bravest and greatest minister for magic in or out of office. Well at least he got sacked...

Yea harry died then came back

Moldy voldy 😂😅😂

he said that he suspected sirius to want to bring him back, or replace him.... not that bringing him back was a possibility

She cares about every patient

Yeah, she’s absolutely awesome!

@@ericgabrielalvesdecarvalho3496 l

Madam Pomfrey is based

Snape didn't deserve to be kicked but she is good

100% correct 👏

Failure*

Omg your the best

Noice

F at U seless D umbass G ets E jected (From being minister of magic)

I just wanted to say, I love your account name! Fellow Army 💜

Robert Hardy is the name. May he join Griffiths, Rickman, Gambon, Harris, and Coltrane.

You should have said it the opposite way

Looooooooooollllllll

ok, is that a SCB reference because once Ben did something like that or was it un-intented ?

lmfao

So true... so true

At least Peter didn't screw everybody, only 4 people 5 if you count lupin.

Ronald Green Pettigrew brought back Voldemort

@@ronaldgreed4967 Peter Pettigrew did screw everyone when he brought back Voldemort

@@SimonaShinewell bloody hell can't argue with that

Voldemort was a big coward, too

A small army of like 20 teenagers.

@@gordonchell4364 Exactly! What did he think they were going to do?! 20 teenagers can't take down an entire magical government...

@@billystokes3917 or can they?

@@aki4ketski Given Fudge's incompetence and idiocy, probably.

@@billystokes3917 and paranoia as well.

Yesss

Fact

Yameen sayed oof no one said that lol

Trump in a nutshell

@@politicswithluca5780 OOF lmao spot on

He's an insult to whatever house he's placed in Probably a slytherin he was so desperate for power that he launched a hate campaign on a teenager

No. Even slytherin has SOME form of pride. I like to think that for certain people like fudge and gilderoy, the hat said that they were "mentally unstable, and should not be teached magic". This is my version of saying the French word for late.

@@charliecomer6001 i’d argue that pride is one of Slytherin’s core traits. Salazar was certainly full of it.

@@charliecomer6001 Lockhart is canonically RAVENCLAW Not all Ravenclaws are ultra smart

I think Lockhart was legitimately intelligent, but he was more interested in manipulating to get to the top fast than he was in honing his actual skills.

I was disgusted by fudge not taking the return of Voldemort seriously 😒

He might’ve been minister of magic a bit after order of phoenix if he just believed Harry and dumbledore

Eliska Cornakova Me too thanks to them the rise Voldemort could have been avoided

That’s the Order of the Phoenix in five seconds.

🤦‍♂️

John Hoyt lmao that’s good

XD good one

Lmao 🤣

He was sacked... not resigned.

John Hoyt lol

They just look similar.

How was he involved with getting junior out of prison? I thought it was Barty crouch's dad who was involved in checking that Barty crouch and his mother exchanged their positions in the prison and Barty jr got out freely so that other prisoners who had noticed this couldn't do much?

@@sds187 For one, they had to get his permission to visit Azkaban. Other than that, just an interesting theory, like the rest of these theories.

Sounds far fetched, of course. But seeing what Fudge had done / failed to do, makes this theory mildly believable.

Jon Woodhouse don’t discredit high school principals

@@greetingsearth387 tbh this high-school principal would probably be able to Win a 1 v 10 so idk man he was right to be afraid even though Dumbledore only used his power for good.

This is a stupid thing to say in it self. Dumbledore isn't a normal high-school principal. This guy won a duel with voldemort and that other guy which name I just fucking forgot. He would probably win a 1 v 10 fighting with the aurors. Also Dumbledore still had alot of followers. But it was stupid thinking that Dumbledore would overthrow the government but technically speaking he could.

Joke or not, it's not as stupid as you try to portray it. Despite Fudge's stupidity. Dumbledore was way more than a mere principal/headmaster. Dumbledore was kind of a big deal. He held titles of Supreme Mugwump of International Confederation of Wizards (wizarding equivalent of president of UN) and Chief Warlock of Wizengamot (chief of wizarding Britain's High Court). He was headmaster of one of the world's most prestigious wizarding schools (and the ONLY British school for wizards) and (as this video states), he pretty much had free reign to do whatever he pleased as headmaster. All of these gave him massive influence. He was also globally known as a legendary fighter who defeated Grindelwald (magical Hitler) in a duel and thus ended the global war in magical world. During the first wizarding war in Britain, he was a founder and leader of a powerful secret organisation "The Order of The Phoenix" which gave Voldemort hell. Dumbledore was the only person whom Voldemort truly feared. On top of all of it, he was a genius manipulator, a true Machiavellian. We can only be grateful that he was good person deep down and thus often stopped himself from becoming too cruel (too often, the end justified the means to him, "for the greater good"). And we readers know that the main reasons why Dumbledore refused position of Minister is because he was truly afraid of becoming corrupt with power. He was well aware of his own capabilities and influence he had on people. After all, it was revealed that he was the one behind who inspired Grindelwald and coined "For the greater good" slogan under which a lot of innocent people died. TL;DR Dumbledore is kind of a big deal

Please, I intended this as a joke. I know very well what Dumbledore is capable of, and that only an idiot wouldn't recognize him as a major player in Wizarding politics. If I was the Minister of Magic, and I thought he was plotting against me, I'd be pretty damn scared too.

I think this'll end up top comment

The opening line made me believe this video has a perfect character description about him

Viza. Core Fudge was the one who made Umbridge High Inquisitor

But Umbridge knew Fudge was an idiot and used that to her own advantage. Fudge never gave her permission to use the black quill, but she did it out of her power. Also Fudge never intentionally imprisoned Muggle borns in Azkaban. Umbridge was the villain while Fudge was her pawn.

Viza. Core fudge is more evil but Umbridge is more hatable

@@notanactiveaccountina yes fudge is incompetent and lacks judgement but he wouldn't send several innocent muggles and muggle-borns to die in Azkaban

@@vikavoltisepic3507 oh nevermind then

I'd argue Umbridge.

MrYoungandBrave1, true, but Fudge hired Umbridge and appointed her as High Inquisitor

Yes, I hate him more than Umbridge.

How true

He is a forcehungry idiot.

Dumbledore did try to get fudge to bring to his office but fudge refused.

Except we already know memories can be doctored or altered quite significantly from the Half-Blood Prince. While the signs of tampering should be obvious, you can bet Fudge wouldn't notice or care. He would still say the memories are fabricated or false. Anyone paying attention should have realised something was wrong upon Voldemort's return, but Fudge refused to see it. The only reason he accepted it, in the end, was that he could no longer deny it after the majority of Ministry personnel saw Voldemort with their own eyes.

No@@corneliusfudge8044

Cornelius Fudge your so fat god even laughed

@@corneliusfudge8044 your so fat that every night you go to sleep your parents buy a new mattress

underrated

Fudge did a big *yikes*

Hah

White Alliance how though?

@@whitealliance9540 totally

@@whitealliance9540 How?

@@whitealliance9540 Finally someone who appreciates me. All these muggles don't know what they are talking about

Honestly I'm surprised none of them kissed him but then again he is basically a death eater (almost)

1234567890000000000 innocent lives

Dumbeldore was bad with power. he was tempted by it

​@@abdirahmanidris290Yeah but he'd still be definitely way better than Fudge lol.

DigiWarriorCallum yea

@DigiWarriorCallum And now I'm wondering about "Ron's Ron shirt". (look up bot-written Harry Potter fanfic)

Yeah, bowler hats are cool, fudge is not tho

DigiWarriorCallum That’s probably true

For the last one, it’s more like “Cornelius Fudge and Honestly, Who Really Gives a Fuck?”

the last film is the best gotta be honest

Lmao🤣😎

8 films

@@nusratparveen82 Yeah, I just joined up the last 2 because they are part of the same movie.

So, you would send Umbridge?

@@ceu160193no probably Kingsley or Moody.

@@laurababyyy1 Sending auror seems like overkill, isn't it? Especially since some of them could be Dumbledore's own spies.

Really?

No it's not.

Yep that’s the joke

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Don't you mean fucked up Fudge definitely fucked up.

Ew can you imagine 😣

@@hevwolf0511 you gotta hate to see that 🤮🤮🤮

I want to see a duel where they use Avada Kedavra on each other

Please do not let them reproduce 😂

LMAOOO!!I can imagine the chaos it would make...Such an underrated comment

Truth.🤔He was a good man in a sense, but an absolutely horrible leader.😓

the opposite of Hitler, great leader, horrible man

He was clearly a bad guy, trying to get Harry expelled, sending Umbridge to the school to bully everyone and prevent the students learning magic... That's not just misguided

He was a racist.

LOL

LOL LOL LOL

LMAO

That I'd like to see!!! LHAH!!!

In the 5th book, a few of them did. 😅😅😅😅😅

Faith Hef /Ron weasly is my sprit animal LMAO

@@faith-oz3pb gO tO tHe HoSpItAl WiNg!!!!! Pomfrey: DO YOU HAVE A BRAIN, IDIOT?!!!!!!!!

lmao

@@beatriceretops ye XD , yes he doesn't XD

In his defence, what could he say? The boys’ parents were there, this was a public event.

That is actually the most realistic part about this. Many secret societies, and organisations were created in the most unlikeliest places that toppled governments. The Bolsheviks and The Revive Chinia Society come to mind. One was made by one random chinese guy in Hawaii and the other was a minor split of a much larger group

@@psychospeech6189 they were usually university students. Not high school students.

So absurd that in the movies, Harry pointed out that it was mental and Lupin backed him up.

To be fair, didn't Voldemort do that too? Most of the original Death Eaters were basically just school friends he accumulated over time. Dumbledore doing the same thing is only stupid if you think it was only meant to happen over one year, but he could have just been getting started in Fudge's eyes. If we assume that every year he starts recruiting 5th years into his cause, and they secretly train for the rest of their Hogwarts education, then he'd only need 3 years for his first recruits and then get a dozen or two new members for every year after. It'd work pretty well if you gave it time.

@@TheAngryXenite It's stupid either way, when person you accuse of it was offered your position multiple times and rejected an offer each time. If Dumbledore wanted, he could overthrow ministry literally by himself - he wouldn't need an army for it. So for me it's just Fudge being in denial, that what Dumbledore said was true and that it's time for Fudge to actually do his damn job, so he comes up with all sorts of idiotic explanations to avoid facing reality.

You did a service to everyone on that plane. Order of Merlin, First Class.

@@lyndsaybrown8471 OMG I didn't expect this thank you so much 😲😲😲😲

OMG, tht literally happend to me too not in a plane ofcrse

@@cabdifataaxmuxumedcabdi3609 yeah I was so excited then so embarrassed.

@@jimhalpert4777 i feel ya

Because in the beginning he basically did nothing, and even that require advices from Dumbledore. Moment he had to actually do his job - explain to magic community, that Voldemort is back and that they need to do something about it - he was not just a fool, but was actively harming any attempts to organise any sort of resistance.

That’s a knee slapper

He didnt even got any investigation on it

Bruh

@Michael Huang *Avada Kadavra

@@izukumidoriya2813 Avada Kedavra*

'Avada kedavra' or the killing curse

NUHHH you can *never* stop with reasons for why he sucks it’s *impossible*

@@weewoowaa The list goes ever on

Absolutely, with Rufus Scrimgeor coming in to represent Winston Churchill as a lion faced, strong leader that would lead the wizarding world against Voldemort. Shame he died so soon, though he did at least manage to keep Harry's location secret...

​@@sunnyliu9820Eh- The guy still sent innocent people to Azkaban just so it'd look as if he was doing something and tried manipulating Harry, still thought, him refusing to tell Voldemort Harry's location was very noble and what a good leader would do. But he still wasn't all that great, with him sending people to Azkaban without making sure they're actually Death Eaters, not firing Umbridge, and lying to the population, saying everything is fine. He was still WAAAY better than Fudge tho lol.

I thought that was Winston churchill

@@cbfranco3307 And that's the kick, he was still better than Fudge.

@@duffal0 did churchill let hitler invade the uk did he do nothing about the bombing of the cities did he gas light the citizens?

I actually thought he send him through time for a second

So if the Bulgarian minister is Churchill, who's Fudge? John Major?

Me: visible confusion

@@FatBlackPussycat neville chamberlain

@@nathan-qo9rj lol good one!

True

Ditto! I miss Alan Rickman.😭

Yes, Fudge's actor was quite good. But Alan Rickman is on a whole other level, in the HP franchise and in other movies he's done.

Alan Rickman played Snape to a tea (beside age but no one can control age)

@@AkiraDraws124 I watched the first film before I read the books Snape Hagrid mccgonogal and first Dumbledore all were as I imagined and pictured But I'll tell you this Have you ever seen the live action 1997 film of Hunchback of Notre Dame? Richard Harris aka first Dumbledore played Frollo My god! In that film he's disgustingly evil and twisted and honestly I thought had he still been alive he should have played voldemort not Ralph fines Yeah, unbelievable how different he looked and acted

No. He is the principal who backs up the teacher who hates kids.

Elizabeth H. True very true

i think that he was the stupid teacher that didn't quite know the things he taught

Agreed

Wait.... That’s Umbridge’s job

Why you have to disrespect the delicious fudge?!?!?!?

Hey, fudge doesn’t have a brain... oh. I get it.

😂😂

😂😂😂

When the boy who lived is sus😳

I thought that Fudge got the job the same year as when Harry was starting school.

I always thought Fudge became Minister of Magic around 1985 or 1986, after Barty Crouch Sr. was shunted to heading the Department of International Magical Cooperation.

Here are the worst things fudge did •Stupidity •hiring umbridge •denied all things harry said •sent hagrid to azkaban •trusted the malfoys •denying voldemort returning •giving himself order of merlin •etc.

You missed one thing: stepping down

@@hello-ud8wwyou named every single important thing fudge did

Every great things Fudges did: -He gave Sirius the newspaper -He resigned

I found one ¬being the worst minister¬

Belle Aurore You don’t say? 😆

because he is

@@amanarun8265 can you not take a joke

@@amanarun8265 r/woooosh

Churchill would have been long dead by then, but okay.

Dumbledore calls him Voldemort not You-Know-Who.

@@apollosravenclawchild1327 I was about to say that thank you

@@harmanjotsingh4230 no prob!

This is the reason why we listen and believe Harry

He probably didn’t want to have the pressure of dealing with Voldemort