loya;ty among deatheaters

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 6039

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, heidi <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> 
wrote:
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> 
> Rita Winston wrote:
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> >
> >
> > > Junior's loyalty to Voldemort is made abundantly clear.
> >
> > I always wonder WHY is Jr (and the Lestranges) so *loyal* to V?
> > Loyalty is supposed to be a virtue that the Death Eaters abandoned
> > when they betrayed their friends and relatives to the Dark Side.
> 
> I'm not sure this was loyalty in the same way that, say Ron & 
Hermione &
> Harry are (when not having fights) loyal to each other  - we don't 
know
> enough about the Lestranges, but I can imagine Barty Crouch helping 
them out
> with their Evil Plan to find voldemort by any means necessary not 
out of
> "loyalty" but out of desparation to recapture the power they could 
have had
> if Voldemort had been able to take over (although there's the issue 
of *why*
> anyone would want to find the defeated & powerless Voldemort in the 
first
> place, because how much power could he provide to his followers in 
those
> defeated circumstances?)

Good question. Maybe their loyality lies in greed. That is, the greed 
for the power and wealth they would receive in a world ruled by 
Voldemort (similar to the other Death Eaters). However, maybe Crouch 
Jr. and the Lestranges had nothing to go back to after Voldemort was 
defeated. Crouch Jr. didn't like his father and perhaps his family's 
lifestyle. We don't know anything about the Lestranges' backgrounds. 
Maybe they were financially strapped like the Weasleys? Clearly, 
Lucius Malfoy had nothing to lose if Voldemort gained total rule, but 
he had everything to lose if Voldemort fell: his family reputation 
and perhaps his family wealth. 

:-) Milz