Chapter Discussion: Goblet of Fire Ch. 7: Bagman and Crouch

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No: HPFGUIDX 191757



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at ...> wrote:
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>> Questions:
> 
> 1. Mr Roberts asked a lot of questions about all the strange things he was
> noticing. Did you think he was nosey, or just reasonably curious? How did you
> feel when the Ministry wizard Obliviated him?

Alla:

I thought he was reasonably curious, as to how I feel about his Obliviation? Eh, I will be honest, I do not remember whether I felt that way when I just read the book for the first  time ( first reactions to some events I remember, but not too many overall), however upon rereads I pretty much feel the same way as I feel about Legilimency. I can kind of sort of excuse it, if the choice would be between killing the person or making person forget, but it will be a lame excuse, I totally realize that. I think it is a horrible violation of the person's self.


> 2. Mr Weasley mentioned that Ludo Bagman has always been a bit lax about
> security. Does this have any bearing on your opinion of whether Ludo knew
> Rookwood was a Death Eater when he passed information to him?

Alla:

I am not sure if this specific thing had any bearing  on my opinion, but  overall I always thought that Ludo was a bit daft, thus I never thought that he knew he was passing information to the Death Eater.

 
> 3. Archie, who likes a healthy breeze, apparently never wears trousers. Do you
> think he is typical of wizards or not?

Alla:

No clue and there are sadly not too many wizards where I would have wanted to find out hehe.


 
> 4. Barty Crouch obviously knows Arthur Weasley quite well. And yet he does not
> know Percy as Arthur's son though he must have been introduced as such. Does
> this show something about Crouch's character, or is "Weatherby" just a joke?


Alla:

I did not think Barty cared to consider Percy important enough, worthy of his interest.


Thanks for the great questions.