Where is Croaker?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 72746

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "magicroxx" <magicroxx at y...> 
wrote:
> After reading and re-reading the last 4 books for the past three 
> years and putting together all sorts of theories and correlations, 
I 
> was not at all surprised when the department of mysteries was 
brought 
> into this plot. (GoF 86) When we FIRST hear of Bode, he is 
introduced 
> as Bode and Croaker. Its probably nothing, but after years of 
> referring to them (in my mind) as Bode and Croaker, when Bode is 
> mentioned all throughout this book with no mention of Croaker, I 
> found this odd. With the death eaters trying to break in to the 
Dept. 
> almost every night and Lucius Malfoy sneaking around by day, why 
was 
> there never a mention of croaker. (he may have been the old, wheezy-
> voiced stooped wizard that was visiting Broderick Bode in St. 
Mungo's)
> 
> My first thought was that he was bad, a death eater. Then I thought 
> of the dream Harry had with Rookwood and Avery. It was Avery who 
had 
> given Voldemort information on the department of mysteries, then 
> after the death eaters were set free, Rookwood corrected him. So if 
> Croaker was a death eater, Voldemort would have quesitoned him 
about 
> the prophecy and not relied on Avery. Does this imply that the 
> department of mysteries is still important in the upcoming books? > 


I'm sure the Dept. of Mysteries will be very important in the next 
book(s). We spent way too much time there if that was to be our only 
glimpses of the various rooms.

As for Croaker, I forgot about him (her?).  Maybe this is a more 
obvious play on words.  Croaker as in "one who croaks." Taking the 
slangy verion of Croak, maybe this person is already dead (croaked.) 
Or maybe Croaker is an assassin, as in one doing the croaking to 
others.  If that's the case, naming him Croaker would be a little 
less obvious than calling him Snuffer.  Which in turn is too close to 
Snuffles...

Marianne, who needs a vacation