Bagman - Fanfic - Dark Mark - Women's Insitute (was Hinkypunks) -

[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 17891

Milz wrote:
> So, are you saying that there was "evidence" that linked
> Bagman to  his alleged crime against 'Our Side' during the
> Voldemort years,

Bagman CONFESSED that he was picking up information and passing it to
Rookwood, but claimed that he thought that Rookwood was on Our Side.

> however, there was enough evidence to reasonably doubt  that
> "evidence" (contaminated evidence, over-scrupulous Ministry wizards,

like Barty Couch putting Sirius in Azkaban without a trial, and his son
with a visibly rigged unfair trial

Anyway, was OJ had on his side was MONEY, not his sports fame. In USA,
people who can spend millions of dollars on defense lawyers hardly ever
get convicted of anything, but people who rely on temporary public
defenders end up on Death Row until/unless a class of journalism majors
prove them innocent as a term paper project.

Paula from Gryffindor wrote:
> although one wonders if [Jane Austen] would approve of JKR at all.

Why wouldn't she? She had a sense of humor.

> Wishing teachers would realize that fanfic is more important
> than any stupid term paper..

LOL. So true.

Pippin wrote:
> The Dark Mark would not be conclusive proof.
> Voldemort may have had many servants and sympathizers
> who did not bear it. It certainly sounds as if there were more
> than thirty Death Eaters in the mob at the World Cup.

Presumably a number of people in the mob were Muggle-haters looking to
join the fun rather than Death Eaters or even VWI active sympathizers.

> Also, Voldemort might have been able to put a false mark
> on the arms of innocent people he wished to incriminate.

Lucius Malfoy as Marked -- that is how he was summoned to the Death
Eater circle in the graveyard -- and that didn't interfere with him
persuading MoM that he was an innocent who had been bewitched into
serving V. Presumably people who truly HAD been bewitched into serving V
would have been marked so V could summon them to meetings.

WHEN did the good guys learn about the bad guys being Marked? When Harry
asked Sirius what it meant that Karkaroff had shown Snape something on
his arm, Sirius looked mystified.

Margaret Dean quoted:
> it was described to Ruth Tongue by members of the
> Dulverton Women's Institute as having 'one leg and
> a light, and led you into bogs'.

Women's Institute. That's what JKR based her Salem Witches' Institute
on, not on a prison (California Institute for Women) or a think tank
(Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies). Btw, 'Tongue" is a very
Potterverse type of surname.









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