Ludo Bagman, Blondie and the Battle of Hogwarts

[Constance Vigilance]

No: HPFGUIDX 155478

--- Goddlefrood wrote:

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> 
> My conclusion is that the BBDE is none other than Ludovic Bagman 
and 
> what follows sets out supporting material for this view and also 
the 
> opinion that Bagman was and is a Death Eater whether reluctantly 
or 
> otherwise.
> 

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CV:

I have no problem with Ludo Bagman being the blond death eater, 
although I had some other ideas. But I'm pretty sure that Blondie is 
a Good Guy based on his actions during the Battle of Hogwarts. All 
of Blondie's actions are helpful to Harry and the Order and seem to 
be designed to keep Harry out of trouble and permit Snape to escape 
safely with Draco.  Let's review the actions in the proper 
chronology:

BATTLE OF HOGWARTS (tm)

Death Eaters arrive through the vanishing cabinet. They start a
fight with members of the Order. Blondie, who is described
as "enormous" is blasting curses everywhere, but always just misses
Order members. He is making a mess of the castle, though.

Gibbon, a DE, goes to the top of the Astronomy Tower and sets off
the Dark Mark. His orders are to stay there and wait for Dumbledore,
but he disobeys and comes back down to join the fight. Blondie, who
is fighting Tonks, "accidentally" kills him with an AK, apparently
meant for Ginnie.

Neville is hurt, Bill is bitten. Dumbledore and Harry arrive at the
top of the Tower. Malfoy slips through the battle and goes to the
top of the Tower. Fenrir, Amycus, Alecto and Brutal-face go up
the tower stairs and lock the entrance behind them.

Fenrir starts to bite Dumbledore, but Brutal-face stops him by
blasting him out of the way.

Snape arrives. Snape AK's Dumbledore.

Snape and Malfoy flee the tower. Greyback, Amycus and Alecto follow.
Brutal-face gets frozen, possibly by Harry. Harry runs down the 
tower.

Greyback attacks Harry. Someone (Blondie?) freezes Greyback, 
stopping him from doing permanent damage to Harry.  Harry pushes 
Greyback off him. A flash of green light comes toward him but 
doesn't connect with anyone. (Blondie threatening Greyback with an 
AK?)

Ginnie is fighting Amycus who is trying to Crucio her. Harry blasts
him away.

Blondie is fighting Tonks and again is missing all the vitals but
doing heavy damage to the surroundings. Harry is trying to follow 
Snape, but Blondie's blasts slow him down. Harry hexes Blondie, 
painfully, and is able to resume chasing Amycus, Alecto and Snape. 
Someone (Blondie?) is calling Harry to come back, but Harry
ignores it.

Harry races toward the front doors. He turns a corner and a curse 
(apparently) misses him, knocking over a suit of armor. (From whom?) 
He sees Amycus and Alecto. He attempts to jinx them, but misses. He 
jumps over the suit of armor (Was the curse actually aimed at the 
suit of armor to create an obstacle to slow down Harry as he chases 
down Snape?)

Harry takes a short cut. He arrives at the oak front doors which 
have been blasted and show signs of blood. The Gryffindor hourglass 
is broken and the rubies are falling onto the flagstones. (Another 
attempt to slow Harry down?) Harry runs through the oak doors and 
outside where he sees Snape, Malfoy and Blondie headed for the 
gates. (How did Blondie get ahead of Harry, anyway? Weird.)

Hagrid tries to stop the three from escaping and gets repeatedly 
blasted by Blondie. The hexes do no damage to Hagrid. 

Amycus and Alecto hex Harry from behind. Harry falls down. He hexes 
them back, hitting one and causing the other to fall down.

Blondie is buying time for Snape and Malfoy by repeatedly hexing 
Hagrid while Snape and Malfoy run towards their escape.

Harry runs past Blondie and Hagrid and attempts to hex Snape. Snape 
tells Malfoy to run and turns to face Harry. Harry attempts to 
Crucio Snape but Snape parries, stopping Harry from completing the 
curse. Blondie Incendio's Hagrid's hut, stopping Harry from 
committing any more unforgiveable curses. Hagrid rushes to his hut to
save Fang.  Harry tries many curses on Snape which Snape parries 
easily. Snape does not attempt any hexes against Harry. Neither does 
Blondie.

Someone painfully hexes Harry, possibly a crucio, but we don't hear 
it. Snape cancels the curse with a yell, and tells the caster of the 
curse that they are to leave Harry for Voldy. Possible casters of 
the curse are: Amycus, Alecto and Blondie who are all in position to 
do it. Based on past other history, my guess is that it is Amycus 
or  Alecto.

Amycus, Alecto and Blondie run for the gates. Snape stays behind to 
deal with Harry. Harry attempts Levicorpus and Snape blasts him. 
They have an impassioned discussion. Snape blasts Harry to the 
ground once more, knocking the breath out of him. Buckbeak attacks 
Snape. Snape heads for the gates, being chased by Buckbeak. Snape 
escapes.

So, what is the conclusion here?

In every case, Blondie and Snape's actions are helpful to Harry. 
Both stop Harry from casting Unforgiveable curses which could put 
Harry in Azkaban. Blondie's main purpose seems to be to interfere 
with Harry catching up with Snape.

The only fatalities from Blondie's actions are Gibbon, who was  
disobeying orders, and the bowtruckles in Hagrid's hut. There was no 
way to know that flammable beasts could be in the path of fire and 
could not be rescued by Hagrid. They were unfortunate collateral 
damage. Otherwise, setting the Hut on fire was a safe diversion - 
the hut could be repaired by a skilled wizard and Hagrid could be 
relied upon to rescue any living thing inside.

All evidence in the Battle of Hogwarts seems to point to Snape and 
Blondie being Good Guy double agents.

CV
 
> Goddlefrood who hopes not to rework this theory too many times and 
> would welcome comments
>

CV's comment is that she likes Goddlefrood's theory, but hopes she 
has rescued Blondie from loyal DE status with this post.