Killing/Persecution/Pettigrew/Marriage-Professors,Contract/HogwartsSexSnog/17

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 155113

Magda:
> Recruiting Pettigrew would have been a favour he did for someone, an
> introduction, a door-opening, made easier because of his sports
> celebrity.  Like Aunt Petunia, Bagman is opposed to asking questions.
> 

Pippin:
Trouble is, there's no hint of any connection between Pettigrew and
Bagman. I think Bagman's trial does throw some light on how Pettigrew
might have been recruited, but only indirectly. It shows us how hard
it would have been for someone who was just as innocent but didn't 
have Bagman's popularity to escape a guilty verdict. 

One of the most common ways to recruit spies in the real world is
to get them to pass along information innocently,  then reveal to
them that they've been working with the enemy and blackmail them 
into providing more.

But I agree that Peter never moves till he's pushed, and so he  is very
unlikely to have been Voldemort's master spy. The master spy
should be a much more ambitious person. AFAWK, Bagman only
wanted  a job that would  keep him connected to the Quidditch world.
He wouldn't have had to join Voldemort to get that. His gambling
debts might have made him vulnerable of course, but in that case
he'd have been in trouble as soon as Voldemort got vaporized and
couldn't cover his debts any longer, not fourteen years later.

In any case, if Bagman was a real Death Eater, then he has gone back
to Voldemort or he is dead. I think he was a one shot character and
has no further role to play. 


Pippin