GoF CH 7-9 Post DH look

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 181798

 Mike:
> > And Goddlefrood thought he really was a Death Eater. 
> 
> Goddlefrood:
> 
> Because he was, there's nothing to refute that unless and until the
Encyclopaedia says otherwise.
>
Carol responds:

We know that he wasn't with the DEs who were baiting the Muggles at
the QWC; he was dealing with the goblins to whom he owed money. We
know that he was trying to help Harry win the TWT, not because he was
in onthe plan to kidnap Harry, but because he had given the goblins
Leprechaun gold. We know that he was always dim; there's no reason not
to believe that he was taken in by "old Rookwood." We know that the
"big blond Death Eater" of HBP is Thorfinn Rowle, not Ludo Bagman. I
see no evidence to indicate that he was ever a DE, only that he
(unwittingly, in more ways than one) provided information to the DE
spy, Rookwood.

I do wish that JKR had given us some indication of what happened to
Ludo Bagman. There's no indication that he took part in the Seven
Potters chase or the Battle of Hogwarts, as he surely would if he were
a Death Eater. We don't even know whether he still works at the MoM;
HRH don't see him there when they go after the locket Horcrux. (For
that matter, we don't know the fates of quite a few characters:
Sturgis Podmore, Mundungus Fletcher, and Stan Shunpike among them.)

Carol, who thinks that Ludo is still running from the Goblins as of DH