[HPforGrownups] Re: Understanding SHIPping, Ludo Bagman, Audio versions

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No: HPFGUIDX 17959

In a message dated 4/29/2001 2:52:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ra_1013 at yahoo.com writes:

> --- Michelle Apostolides wrote: 
>  > As for Ludo Bagman. Well I know that Dumbledore
>  > states ant the end of
>  > The Pensieve chapter that LB is NOT a DE but I
>  > wonder... Winky is
>  > obviously a very loyal elf and I don't think she
>  > would have been so
>  > vehement about LB at the end of " The House Elf
>  > Liberation Front "
>  > without good reason.
>  > I think Ludo is one to watch.
>  
>  I agree to a certain extent.  I think Ludo *was*
>  really a DE, not just an innocent dupe.  It only
>  occurred to me in my last reading of GOF, but remember
>  that Ludo also ran off after the TWT, not just
>  Karkaroff.  Fred and George say it was because of the
>  goblins, but what if *Ludo* was who Voldie was
>  referring to as the coward?

I think Winky said those things about Ludo because Crouch had such a low 
opinion of him as a department head at the MoM. The two of them definitely 
had their own way of doing things.

Toby