The Death Eater Name

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No: HPFGUIDX 11531

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., bob.mornington at w... wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., bob.mornington at w... wrote:
> >>Whilst we're on the subject, does anyone agree with me that
> >>"Death-Eaters" was rather a silly name for JKR to have chosen for
> >>Voldemort's supporters?
> >>Wouldn't something along the lines of "The Dark League" or "The
> >>National Order of Dark Wizardry" have been much better?
> >>Bob
> > 
> >Oh, people love to join groups with silly sounding names...what 
> >about the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, or The Ancient 
> >and Accepted Order of Freemasons, or, for that matter,  The White 
> >Kights of the Ku Klux Klan?
> > 
> > Pippin
> 
> Yes Pippin, but would you or anyone you know, ever dream of joining
a 
> group called the Death Eaters? Don't you think people would just 
> laugh at the idiocy of it, even if they were REALLY evil?
> People with really disgusting motives usually like to hide them. 
> Hitler would never have gotten so many people on board had he
called 
> his party the "Fascist Dictatorship and Genocide Party". No,
instead 
> he called it the National Socialist Party (i.e. Nazi Party).
> Bob

But Voldie and his boys glory in their bad guy image...like Hell's 
Angels...or The Bloods (a street gang)...they're not trying to pass 
themselves off as respectable. The DE's are a terrorist group and
proud of it. Lucius attempts to keep his affiliation secret and
Draco, who wants to have it both ways  is, IMHO, riding for a fall.
Remember, before Hitler had the NAZI's he had the  Sturm 
Abteilung...(Storm Division): the brown shirts. They were
purged...not respectable enough for the NAZIs. 
Pippin