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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 119819


Kneasy:
> > 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".<<

Annemehr:
> 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?" < 

Pippin:

Bagman, as an internationally famous quidditch star, might have 
been developed as a useful source of information about foreign 
ministrys.

To tell you the truth, I thought the whole Bagman/spy subplot was 
a sly reference to the old 'I Spy' television series. Robert Culp 
and Bill Cosby played cold war era secret agents whose cover 
was professional tennis. As visiting celebrities they could cross 
the iron curtain, get invited to diplomatic functions and serve as 
conduits of information and in aid of the occasional defector 
(generally young and female.)


Pippin