[HPforGrownups] THEORY:Re: Snape and Neville

[charme]

No: HPFGUIDX 112148


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cathy Drolet"

> DuffyPoo:
> I assumed that the eavesdropper - not Mundungus, but whoever it was - was
thrown out for eavesdropping.  I guess I just take it at face value when DD
says, "My -- our -- one stroke of good fortune was that the *eavesdropper*
was detected only a short way into the prophecy and thrown from the
building."  DD and Trelawney were, after all, in a "room above the bar at
the Hog's Head inn" not in the bar directly.  The person was intentionally
listening at the door.  Twenty years is too long for the ban to be connected
to the eavesdropping incident, as you said, but why would Mundungus have
need to go back there?  Crook business is everywhere, not just in Hogsmeade.
There are lots of other pubs around, wizard and otherwise, I'd imagine, he
has no need to be in this one again until they need him to follow/protect
HP.  Even if he had been there on crook business, disguised to hide from the
barman, why would he be following DD upstairs, when his crook business would
most likely be going on downstairs in the pub?
>

Charme:

After re-reading GoF today, I'm convinced that the "eavesdropper" is Ludo
Bagman.  Ludo was accused of "passing information to Lord Voldemort's
supporters." We're never told what information he supposedly passed, and
only that he mistakenly passed whatever it was to Rookwood whom Ludo claims
was an old friend who promised to get him a job in the Ministry. Something
to think about, anyway.

charme