Ludo Bagman's name

[Pam Scruton]

No: HPFGUIDX 622

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Jim Hohman" <jickndim at g...> wrote:
> Ludo suggests to me Luddite or ludicrous.  There is also a 
fictional 
> character named Ludovic and I can't remember at the moment ( I will
> at 
> 3AM tonight).  Bagman in my lexicon is someone who CARRIES money 
> between bribors and bribees ( forgive for that, couldn't resist)or 
> between drug dealers and their customers etc.  Always a low level 
> functionary in the underworld.  Just something to throw into the 
stew.
> 
> Jim

I thought that Ludo would be short for Ludovic from the Latin 'victor 
ludorum' winner of the games.   Ludo is also a board game which will 
be familiar to most British children at least - is it not a game 
played in the US also?

A bagman, to me anyway, would be one of two things - a tramp or hobo 
who carries all his worldly possession in a bag, or somebody who 
works for the President of the US who carries the briefcase around 
containing the wherewithal to start total global thermonuclear war.  
Don't know where I got the latter from - but it was the first thing I 
thought of when I saw the name Ludo Bagman.  I didn't know about the 
low-level courier between drug dealers and customers - perhaps that's 
the derivation for the carrier of the thermonuclear briefcase. 

Pam