Regarding Bill

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 87170

Erin wrote:

> What we don't know is why.  Why have we been told all this stuff 
> about Bill?  What purpose does he serve?  I think JKR must be 
> building up to something with Bill.  
> 
> Why else take so much care to see that we know so very much about a 
> minor character?

Berit replies:

I think Bill will be more important in the story... Rowling paved the 
way for him, especially in OoP when Bill's persuading skills with the 
goblins were mentioned more or less in passing... The goblins (and 
the other non-human magical beings) will have an important part in 
the plot in the last books. It's already been said on this forum that 
Rowling rarely, possibly never, mentions a name that doesn't turn out 
to play a (larger) role in the story later on. I'm just rereading 
GoF, and noticed Arthur Weasley mentioning a lot of names, just in 
passing, the clever way Rowling always does :-) Conveniently, the 
tents the Weasleys, Hermione and Harry are sleeping in at the 
Quidditch World Cup grounds are situated along the main path to the 
pitch, causing a lot of wizards to pass them. And even more 
conveniently, Mr. Weasley kept up a running commentary for Harry and 
Hermione's benefit (and ours obviously :-) Among others, Bode, one of 
the Unspeakables working in the Depertment of Mysteries, is 
mentioned. We know he came back into the story... What interests me, 
is that Cuthbert Mockridge is mentioned. He is the Head of the Goblin 
Liaison Office... Didn't see him in book 5 as far as I know, so I'm 
dead sure he'll be around, probably already in book 6 since 
Bill's "negotiations" with the Goblins are mentioned.

Berit