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dumb question, but

To: alt.fan.harry-potter
From: OrionCA 
Subject: Re: dumb question, but
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:20:47 -0700

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 02:38:42 GMT, "BigScience" 
wrote:

>what exactly is a "death eater"? i've read all five books, and am getting
>fuzzy on some of the character types.
>thx

Death Eaters are followers of Voldemort from the first time he
terrorized the wizarding world,  They are all wizards who seem to
believe that the wizarding world has gotten "soft" and "decadent" and
want to restore its "former glory".  Along the way they pick on
Muggles and Mudbloods for sport.  According to Ron Weasley "There's
not a wizard that turned bad that wasn't in Slytherin" but at that
time he also thought Sirius Black was a DE and according to JKR Sirius
was a Gryffindor.  Of course, Ron was 11 years old at the time and
might have been fuzzy on the finer points of DE history.

The DEs' 11 year reign of terror ended when Voldemort got blown up
trying to kill the infant Harry Potter.  Some claimed to have been
under a spell cast by Voldemort and were accepted back into the wizard
community, others were captured and sent to the wizard prison Azkaban,
some were killed, some were never caught.  

There were a few DE attacks after Voldemort was overthrown - Neville's
parents were tortured into insanity because a couple of them thought
they knew where Voldemort was hidden - but for the most part they laid
low.  Mad-Eye Moody spent the last few years of his Auror career
rounding them up (that's how he lost his eye & leg and got a piece
taken out of his nose) but there were still quite a few at large when
he retired.  When Voldemort was reborn his surviving followers
reassembled to watch him destroy Harry Potter once and for all (GoF).
It's not known if there are any new recruits, though almost certainly
Draco Malfoy would join if his father would let him.  The house elf
Kreatcher might become a DE or a "DE Auxiliary", if there is such a
thing.
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