Bode's visitor

[catimini15]

No: HPFGUIDX 131052

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...>
wrote:
> Hello everyone. I haven't posted much at all as of late, but I am in 
> the midst of my pre-HBP reread and I came across a passage in OOTP 
> that caught my eye and I wanted to see what the list thought about 
> it, even if I'm only pointed towards the thousands of posts that have 
> already beaten it to death. 
> Anyway, in chapter 22, St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Malladies and 
> Injuries, page 486 (US hardback), Harry and the Weasleys are going to 
> visit Arthur at the hospital after he was bitten by Voldie!Snake. One 
> of the wizards waiting in line at the Welcome Witch's desk is going 
> to see Broderick Bode, the Unspeakable whom we later learn was 
> Imperioed by Mr. Malfoy into taking the Prophecy from the shelf and 
> is eventually throttled by an anonymously sent Devil's Snare 
> presumably to keep him quiet about anything that he might know. The 
> visitor is described as an "old and stooped wizard with a hearing 
> trumpet". 
> Now, what I want to know is, who the heck is this guy? It is 
> possible, and entirely likely, that it is just one of Bode's 
> relations come to cheer him up, but couldn't it also have been a 
> disguised DE come to see how he's doing and whether or not he'll need 
> to be finished off? Could it possibly be Wormtail under a supremely 
> clever disguise? Anyway, I'm probably half-cracked trying to look for 
> stuff I haven't spotted yet in my tenth reread, but I thought I'd 
> bring it up and see what all you faithful listees have to say. 
> 
> Meri - so insanely psyched that there are only 25 days left!!!!

Hi-
I hate quoting my own posts but here it is, 102571 (June 23, 2004):
(snip)
"A couple of months ago (I'm sorry, I couldn't find the posts) there
was speculations that the visitor was Wormtail in disguise with his
silver hand transfigured into a hearing device. I would like to stress
the word «disguise» because I came across something interesting while
I was rereading GoF. In the first chapter (The Riddle House), Wormtail
tries to convince Voldy to use another wizard instead of Harry (for
the dark magic rebirth potion 10 months later) and he says: "You know
that I can disguise myself most effectively." Is Wormtail referring to
his hability as an animagus or is he mentionning other ways of
successfully transforming his appearance? I think the visitor was a DE
nevertheless..."

A DE indeed: Wormtail in disguise is one of my favorite theory (I've
said that many times).

Nadine