Voldemort spy? - flint or hint in GOF?

[maryblue67]

No: HPFGUIDX 131902

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Beth Currie" <lists at d...> wrote:
> 
> What jumped out at me on this re-read was, how could Voldemort know that
> Harry was going to attend the Quidditch World Cup?  Surely he should have
> assumed that Harry would stay at the Dursley's for the duration of the
> school holidays?  Perhaps, I wondered, he got this information from Barty
> Crouch Jnr, who heard from Crouch Snr that Harry was expected in the Top
> Box.  But, in chapter 35 where Crouch Jnr is given the Veritaserum, he says
> that Voldemort did not make contact with him until *after* the World Cup.
> 
> So, while Voldemort was in hiding, with only Wormtail for company, how could
> he have known this?  It's made me wonder whether there is an informant among
> those who DID know Harry was going to the Cup - namely the Weasleys,
> Dumbledore, Ron and Hermione.  Given later events and Percy's actions in
> OOP, my suspicions would fall on him.  There are numerous references
> throughout the books to Percy's ambitions to be Minister of Magic, and the
> lengths he would go to to further his career - quote from page 463, same
> edition:
> 
> <"Percy would never throw any of his family to the Dementors" said Hermione
> severely.  "I don't know" said Ron.  "If he thought we were standing in the
> way of his career...Percy's really ambitious you know...">
> 
> What do other people think?

The first person that comes to my mind is Lucius Malfoy. He seems to spend a lot of time 
at the Ministry given that he doesn't work there, and gets lots of information. I am sure 
Bangman would not have kept it a secret that he had given the Weasleys some tickets and 
that Harry was coming with them. He could have told Malfoy directly, although more likely 
he told Fudge and Malfoy got the information from him.

But indeed you make a very good point.

Maryblue