[HPforGrownups] Broderick Bode's visitor

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 102516

| From: imamommy
| Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 0:46 AM
| As I was rereading OOP again, I was trying to connect all the dots on
| Broderick Bode.  The trio figures out that he was killed because he
| was regaining speech and memory.  But how did VM know that?  This
| thinking led me to wonder, who was his visitor the day after Arthur
| was attacked?  the old man with the listening device?  Was he as
| innocuous as he seemed?  Was JKR just keeping Bode's name in our
| minds, or is there more to this man than is obvious?

[Lee]:
To connect all the dots, you need to go back to GOF in the chapter on the
Quidditch World Cup.  Mr. Weasley is telling the kids who is who as he says
hello to passers-by from the ministry...and he says, "Bode and Croker ...
they're Unspeakables."

So, here we have an innocuous name dropped on us and it comes back in OOTP.

I'd want to say that the visitor was probably someone Bode knew who might
have been really working for LV, but Bode didn't know that.

I just looked into GOF again...there was that very feeble old man with
Macnair from the Committee for the Disposal of Magical Creatures.  Could he
have been the baddie? Hmm...

Cheers,
Lee :-)

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