Fudge e o Ministério
Fudge se recusou a acreditar em algo que ele não queria que fosse verdade. Claro, Fudge tinha uma explicação para acreditar em si mesmo, que Barty Crouch jr. estava agindo sozinho. Isso permitiu que ele acreditasse que, enquanto alguns eventos terríveis ocorreram, tudo estava resolvido e a ordem geral não havia sido perturbada.
"Why he killed them? Well, that's no mystery, is it?" blustered Fudge. "He was a raving lunatic! From what Minerva and Severus have told me, he seems to have thought he was doing it all on You- Know-Who's instructions!"
"Lord Voldemort was giving him instructions, Cornelius,"
Dumbledore said. "[...] Voldemort has been restored to his body."
Fudge looked as though someone had just swung a heavy weight into his face. Dazed and blinking, he stared back at Dumbledore as if he couldn't quite believe what he had just heard. He began to sputter, still goggling at Dumbledore.
"You-Know-Who . . . returned? Preposterous. Come now, Dumbledore . . ."
[...]
"You fool!" Professor McGonagall cried. "Cedric Diggory! Mr. Crouch! These deaths were not the random work of a lunatic!"
"I see no evidence to the contrary!" shouted Fudge, now matching her anger, his face purpling. "It seems to me that you are all determined to start a panic that will destabilize everything we have worked for these last thirteen years!"
[...]
"You are blinded," said Dumbledore, his voice rising now, the aura of power around him palpable, his eyes blazing once more, "by the love of the office you hold, Cornelius! [...]"
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, chapter 36, "The Parting of the Ways"
Fudge não queria que Voldemort tivesse retornado, então ele se recusou a acreditar que isso havia acontecido.
It seemed Fudge could think of no answer to this. He rocked backward and forward on his small feet for a moment and spun his bowler hat in his hands. Finally, he said, with a hint of a plea in his voice, "He can't be back, Dumbledore, he just can't be . . ."
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O Mundo Mágico
Então Fudge teve uma explicação para ele se agarrar. Ele também tinha uma explicação para o mundo mágico em geral.
O Torneio Tribruxo era conhecido por ser perigoso, até mortal. Isto foi até considerado aceitável até que o número de mortos subisse demais .
"The Triwizard Tournament was first established some seven hundred years ago as a friendly competition between the three largest European schools of wizardry: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang. A champion was selected to represent each school, and the three champions competed in three magical tasks. The schools took it in turns to host the tournament once every five years, and it was generally agreed to be a most excellent way of establishing ties between young witches and wizards of different nationalities — until, that is, the death toll mounted so high that the tournament was discontinued."
Dumbledore explaining the Triwizard Tournament in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, chapter 12, "The Triwizard Tournament"; emphasis mine.
Claro, agora somos séculos depois.
"There have been several attempts over the centuries to reinstate the tournament," Dumbledore continued [...]
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Mas ainda é perigoso.
"[...] the tournament tasks will still be difficult and dangerous, whatever precautions we take [...]"
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Ao todo, a morte de Cedric pode ser atribuída à sua participação em um torneio perigoso que é conhecido por causar mortes em suas parcelas anteriores.