Re: Bagman – A Death Eater or Not? – You (Generic) Decide (GoF CH 7-9 Post DH lo

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 181835



> Goddlefrood:
> > Mr. Weasley, a few pages later (page 128) then helpfully tells us:
> > 
> > "But I'll tell you this 
 it was only the Death Eaters who ever 
> knew how to conjure it."
> > 
> > Further indicating that a person who, as LB clearly seemed to 
> immediately, knew how to conjure the Dark Mark is a Death Eater. 
<snip>

Potioncat:
Which still leaves me wondering, in HBP, why did DD mention that 
Slughorn hadn't cast a Dark Mark over his house? (which gave it away 
to DD that it wasn't DEs) And why was Slughorn's answer, "I didn't 
have time." If he could cast it, he was a DE and if he couldn't cast 
it, time wouldn't matter.

> 
> Carol responds:
> Forgive me for not responding in detail to all of your points. I 
just
> want to add that, of all the HP books, each of which contains a
> mystery of some sort, GoF is the most like a detective novel, with
> every person in the room with Harry after his name comes out of the
> goblet as a possible suspect. <snip>

Potioncat:
I had to snip a really good section here. But I'm only saying "I 
agree." JKR did such a good job making Ludo a red herring, that most 
us continued to distrust him past GoF. To a certain extent, the same 
thing happened with Remus back in PoA.

We don't know what happened to Bagman. How about Fudge? Do we hear 
anything at all about Fudge in DH?