loya;ty among deatheaters

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 6044

--- 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?)

It's about malice and revenge -- and the thirst for power over others.
Evil people love to intimidate, terrorize, and do with other what they
will and demand and get services from others. They support Voldemort
because they are enraged and contemptuous at Dumbledore, et al. and 
refuse to be defeated.