Longbottoms/Lestranges/Bagman/Lockhart (was: Re: JKR's cryptic answer)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

> But there's 
> someone else at those trials - Bagman.
> 
> He's accused of passing information to DEs.  Just what the information 
> was we don't know, though it might be suggestive that DD's memories of 
> his trial (although held on a  different day) are in there with the 
> Lestranges and Barty Jnr - both concerning the Longbottom atrocity.  
> Years later he's also around for the Goblet conspiracy - and Winky 
> considers him a "very bad wizard".

There's definitely a piece of the puzzle that Jo hasn't given us yet.
   As you wonder later, "what information could Bagman have that would
interest a Voldy spy already in the Ministry?"  Not only what
information could a young Quidditch star obtain, but what could it be
that he could plausibly *think* was to help the good side but was
really for the bad side?  It can't be information on the doings of
either side, because then he'd *know* that Rookwood was working for
the opposite side.  It has to be something they'd both want, like the
plans to a new type of weapon or something.  What, he'd discovered new
properties of bludgers that make them useful in a war?

It's also (barely) possible, of course, that Bagman was merely the
conduit for information from some unknown agent to Rookwood, but that
just creates the need for more plausible deniability: Bagman would
have to be able to claim the unknown agent was not who he seemed, as
well. And why would this unknown agent need a courier such as Bagman,
when there are so many ways to communicate in the wizarding world?

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