CHAPDISC: HBP11, Hermione's Helping Hand

[leb2323]

No: HPFGUIDX 149022

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
> This brought up a thought I have had in the past and never voiced.
> Why did JKR introduce McClaggan into the book? To me, he doesn't seem 
> to add anything valuable to the advancement of the story and seems to 
> be a bit of a spare part.


leb:
While reading and re-reading the book I got the idea that McClaggen is 
going to be the person who unwittingly helps out DEs in book 7.  If you 
think of Ludo Bagman's trial that we saw in the pensieve he describes 
passing information that helped the DEs when he thought he was helping 
the good guys the whole time.  McLaggen strikes me as the same kind of 
blustering easily fooled if you stroke his ego enough kind of guy.  Of 
course I'm still vaguely leaning toward ESE!Ludo so I'm not sure how 
innocent it all was!