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Cornelius Fudge: "It's very kind of you, Prime Minister, but there is nothing [you can do for me]. I was sent here tonight to bring you up to date on recent events and to introduce you to my successor. I rather thought he'd be here by now, but of course, he's very busy at the moment, with so much going on."
Portrait at 10 Downing Street: "He'll be here in a moment, he's just finishing a letter to Dumbledore."
Cornelius Fudge: "I wish him luck. I've been writing to Dumbledore twice a day for the past fortnight, but he won't budge. If he'd just been prepared to persuade the boy, I might still be... Well, maybe Scrimgeour will have more success."
Cornelius Fudge and the portrait at 10 Downing Street[src]

Cornelius Fudge sent around twenty-eight letters to Albus Dumbledore in 1996 between the Battle of the Department of Mysteries (18 June 1996) and his dismissal as Minister for Magic, in a vain attempt to persuade him to convince Harry Potter to lie to everybody that during Fudge's leadership the Ministry was doing a good job in security in order for him to keep his office, aware that now the truth of Voldemort's survival was known to all, the word of the Boy-Who-Lived would carry weight with many in the wizarding community due to his past survivals of the Dark Lord's attempts on his life. Fudge failed in his attempts, and was eventually ousted from office in complete disgrace.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 1 (The Other Minister)
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