Ludo Bagman

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 29098

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:
(SNIP)
The Ministry of
> Magic might have gone after Ludo Bagman, not because he was in a 
position to do much harm, but because they wanted to make an example 
of somebody with a
> really high profile in the news.

I never thought of it that way.  I saw the Bagman trial as a sort of 
O.J. Simpson spectacle, with people dazzled by Bagman's celebrity 
status and not taking the accusation seriously.  In the end, he got 
off because he was a star, much to Crouch Sr.'s disgust.  He could be 
a dodgy character in the future, since he's already in trouble with 
the goblins over gambling debts. He's the sort who could be vulnerable 
to blackmail (as we've seen), or willing to do a deal with Voldemort 
for protection. 

Wanda