[HPforGrownups] Re: Ludo Bagman's name

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 625


Pam said:

>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?

I made a comment, which I now realise was in the Yahoo chatroom, about Ludo
the board game (which I remember well), and the fact that Ludo has a brother
called Otto, which made me think of lotto/lottery, both names suggesting
somewhat childish game-playing or gambling.  That's how I see Ludo Bagman -
an overgrown kid, who gambles unwisely, plays and loses.  I feel that this
weakness of his will be exploited further in future HP books. His services
will be easily bought, if he has run up huge gambling debts.

Neil
            Flying-Ford-Anglia

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