DE Bagman OR Cowardly Karkaroff? (WAS Too little credit...)

[Angela Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 49342


 
 kewiromeo at aol.com wrote:
<<I can't understand why Karkaroff left if Hogwarts is the safest place. Snape 
is safe there. Voldermort is scared to attack anyone there, so why not just 
stay there and seek asylum like Snape?>>

Me:

 This gets away from the original topic of your post, but this has been bothering me more and more lately.  If you asked me right now which DE was "too cowardly to return"and "fled"the night of the Tournatment, I would say it was Karkaroff.  But I am having a harder and harder time believing that Bagman was simply this red herring never to be heard from again.  He does flee that exact night also.  Has he run away from ever?  A top Ministry official leaves wizarding society because of (albeit substanstial) gambling debts?

  In the Pensieve scenes, I know that many people found Bagman's trial to be humorous.  How after he has just been acquitted for the atrocity of being a DE and spy, people begin comgratulating him on last week's quidditch match.  But even the first time I read it, I found that ominous.  That people were so willing to believe Bagman because he was this affable sports hero.  And Fred and george's explanation that he was too much of a "stupid git" to be helping Voldemort doesn't put my fears to rest.  I mean, look at Crabbe and Goyle Sr.  I am not saying that at the time of the Tournament Bagman was still loyal to Voldemort (possibly?).  But could Bagman have been a DE?  If he WAS then he was possibly the only former DE to be presently living a life of such high profile, and good reputation, and such an important ministry position.  Maybe he had gotten very used to all this, and the return of the Dark Mark brought no desire to return to LV.  And so he ran.  And in the chaos his dissapearance gets explained away.  

  Karkaroff never denied having been a DE.  He is a known "reformed" DE.  So why WOULDN'T he take refuge at Hogwart's?  Pride?  Maybe.  He seem like a proud and pompous individual, but he also seems out to save his own ass at all costs.

  If Bagman was the "cowardly" DE, then the position of "left me forever" DE goes back into contention.  It could be Karkaroff.  Which makes for some very interesting developments in the Snape side of things.  

  Bottom line, I do not wholely believe my own theory.  But it bugs me how Bagman vanished off the scene in such a manner.  And JKR doesn't seem the type to invest so much in one character (he appears throughout the book constantly, we see his history, he is involved with a book-long subplot involving the twins, and somes under suspicion by us, Harry, and Sirius, for trying to aid Harry in the Tournament) and then simply say that all of his actions come to naught.

 

Thoughts?

 

ANGELA





 



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