[HPforGrownups] Character summary: Ludovic Bagman

[Sister Mary Lunatic]

No: HPFGUIDX 435

Bagman is disturbing to me because he is a ranking member of the Ministry
and has left himself open to blackmail and coercion by the Death Eaters.
The Voldemort side may agree to either pay off his gambling debts, or to
eliminate his creditors.  I got the feeling that he WAS a member of the
Death Eaters prior to the downfall of Voldemort, and that he was given
preferential treatment and let free due to his popularity as a sports hero
(sounds like a few Muggles I know).



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The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to
pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country
and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly
is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich
men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and
we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property
of other men.  We are intellectual prostitutes.

~ John Swinton,
the Chief of Staff for the New York Times, 1953