Ludo Bagman's name

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 684

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Pam Scruton" <Pam at b...> wrote:

> I thought that Ludo would be short for Ludovic from the Latin
> 'victor ludorum' winner of the games.

I think JKR may have had that Latin in mind when she named him. 
However, I believe that Ludovic, like Ludwig and Louis and Clovis, 
are all forms of the name Chlothovachus (I erroneously wrote 
Chlothovicus in a previous post) which was the name of Clovis the 
Frank in his own language.

> 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 don't recall ever having heard of it before the GoF discussions 
began. I have HEARD of a game called Lotto or Lottery Tickets (and I 
don't mean the Lotto 'game' in the California Lottery) but the only 
thing I've ever SEEN of such a name is Loteria: a bingo-like 
game with pictures that can be purchased in Mexican-import stores.
> 
> A bagman, to me anyway, would be one of two things - a tramp or
> hobo who carries all his worldly possession in a bag,

'swagman' in Waltzing Matilda!

> somebody who works for the President of the US who carries the 
> briefcase around containing the wherewithal to start total global
> thermonuclear war. 

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