Bagman (was Re: Killing/Persecution/Pettigrew/Marriage-Professors,Contract/HogwartsSexSnog/17)

[Joe]

No: HPFGUIDX 155125

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
>
> Pippin:
> It [Bagman's acquittal] 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. 
> 

Joe:
It might also show how the accused's celebrity status might insulate a 
guilty party from conviction. Given JKR's work with Amnesty 
International she might have Bagman show up as a DE in book 7 just to 
highlight that point. Bagman did all he could to help HP win the TWT in 
GoF presumably because he had bet money on him winning, but Barty 
Crouch Jr. was also working to get HP to win, maybe Bagman had a second 
motive that will come out in the last book exposing how famous people 
with connections can escape convictions that poorer less connected 
cannot.