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

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 119841


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "greatelderone"
<greatelderone at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
> wrote:
> 
> > 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?" 
> 
> GEO: Why does Rookwood need a reason? He was gathering human 
> intelligence for Voldemort, no doubtly he recruited Bagman because 
> he didn't have someone high up in the quidditch teams to spy and 
> gather information for his master.

Annemehr again:
Well, and he recruited Bagman because he knew him personally (he was
friends with Bagman's father). But what "human intelligence" are you
thinking of?  Was Rookwood just casting a wide net, having Ludo tell
him anything and everything he notices, in hopes something useful
turns up?  His team (all-England) had played against Turkey the
Saturday before the hearing we see; do you suppose a young Quidditch
star would have entree into some international circles that LV would
be interested in?

I don't know, it's hard to imagine where Ludo Bagman's circle of
knowledge would overlap with LV's circle of interest.  

I liked Pippin's thought a few posts back that Jo was recalling the
old "I Spy" series, though -- my memories of the show are too hazy for
me ever to have thought of that on my own.  Perhaps Jo never meant to
get into the details of the past once she'd established the chance
that Ludo might be "a bad wizard."

Annemehr