Malfoy/Karkaroff

[jeneric182001]

No: HPFGUIDX 92686

Eloise wrote:
 
> > If Karkaroff was released from prison for 
> > incriminating the other DE's (There's no mention of Lucius at 
> > Karkaroff's hearing) why would Lucius want to send his son 
to a 
> > traitor for wizard training? Even LV knows in the graveyard 
scene 
> in 
> > GOF that Lucius hasn't renounced the 'old' ways. 
> 
> It's not clear how public this hearing was or whether the 
proceedings 
> were publicised beyond those present in the chamber at the 
time.
-snip-
> 
> So perhaps Lucius simply did not know that Karkaroff was a 
> traitor.


Although we don't know exactly how much publicity there was, I 
seem to remember a young version of Rita Skeeter being there. 
(I don't have the books with me here so I could be remembering 
this wrong, but I think I'm right.) 

It's not stated that she was definitely there covering the trials as
a reporter, so we don't know for sure anything was ever published 
about it, in the Daily Prophet or any other publication. But just the 
mere fact of her presence, coupled with what we know about her 
personality, makes it probably safe to assume that anything Rita 
Skeeter knows about is not going to be secret for long.

--Jen