Ok, another question about DE's

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Ok, another question about DE's
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6551] Ok, another question about DE's
Date: 8/10/00 8:30 pm  (ET)

> Where did the name come from? Come on, who would want to be called a
"Death Eater"? (snip)you don't "eat death?"

I imagine that V attracted some of his followers by offering them a chance
at immortality (using his own loathsome achievement of immortality as
evidence that it is possible), which could be construed as "eating death"
in the sense of "Death eats all mortals -- but not me! I eat Death!"

I further imagine that all the killing they did was not only eliminating
opposition, not only DEs taking the opportunity to get vengeance on
disliked people, not only DEs having sick cruel fun, not only 'propaganda
of the deed', but maybe they could or believed they could use the
life-force or magic power of the people they killed to lengthen their
own lives (sort of like classic vampires) or increase their own magic
power. In that case, they would be eating the deaths of their victims
(sort of like being a carnivore).