Voldemort's hold on the Death Eaters (long), was: Re: 101. . .

[Mike Schubert]

No: HPFGUIDX 9925

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, atelecky at m... wrote:
And Voldemort himself has come to expect more than 
merely 
> obedience from his Death Eaters. He speaks of the possibility of 
their 
> having gone over to Dumbledore like a jealous god having discovered 
> his followers worshipping a foreign idol. He seems to fully expect 
> that his followers should have gone to prison rather than "renounce" 
> him, which in a purely practical sense, for Voldemort the ordinary 
> garden variety Evil Overlord, makes no sense at all: if all of 
> Voldemort's followers had been killed or imprisoned, there would 
have 
> been no Wormtail to rescue him. Indeed, none of the Death Eaters who 
> did remain faithful were of any use to Voldemort when he needed them 
> most: Crouch and the Lestranges were imprisoned, and those whom we 
> hear of who chose to fight the Aurors rather than come peacefully, 
> certainly did not renounce Voldemort, but they're frankly no use to 
> him dead.

Something else that always made me think twice was the fact that V 
lauds Crouch as someone that never renounced him. (I don't have exact 
quotes on this, so I could be wrong, but I always got the impression 
this was the way V saw Crouch.) However, as we saw at the trial, 
Crouch was just as anxious to renounce V as anyone else was, he just 
didn't get away with it. Sure, he came back to V once he was out of 
prison and under his own power, but the fact is he TRIED to renounce 
V, and failed. Interesting that V should regard this as a testament to 
his loyalty. (Although, like I said, I do recognize that Crouch did 
wholeheartedly come back to V at the end. However, I was always 
confused, as I had the distinct impression that V kept hammering on 
how Crouch had "never wavered".
-Mike