[HPforGrownups] Re: How Many Death Eaters?

[Danette Schardt-Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 20740


--- Eric Oppen <oppen at cnsinternet.com> wrote:
> Yes, that would be one way of doing it.  I was
> thinking more of how some
> lodges, like the Masons, work (and this is NOT a
> slam at the Masons, or any
> existing lodge!!!) with lower-ranking members not
> having all the "secret
> knowledge" that you get as you rise in the ranks.  
> We don't know much about
> Voldemort, but he might well be familiar enough with
> Muggle culture to use
> either system, or both.  A cell system, combined
> with a system of ranks,
> would be very difficult for the Aurors to destroy
> entirely; hence, the
> number of DEs who managed to get away, after the
> first fall of Voldemort.
> 
> As for non-British DEs, keep in mind that a lot of
> wizards have
> "non-standard" given and/or family names.  Mulciber,
> mentioned by Karakoff
> in his attempts to get himself out of Azkaban, could
> be any nationality.
> Also, _someone_ had to give Karakoff, a known ex-DE,
> that job as headmaster
> of Durmstrang, and that someone could have easily
> been a "deep cover" DE of
> Eastern/Central European background.
> 
> We know the most about British Isles DEs because the
> books are set in
> Britain, and Potter & Co., (to borrow a bit of
> terminology from the only
> school stories I ever read before HP) are British
> themselves.
> 
> Eric Oppen
> aka "Technomad."
> 
> 


That's possible after all he(Tom Riddle) was raised in
a Muggle orphanage so he would have been exposed to
that culture first and we have seen that your average
bad guy doesn't usually have any problems adopting any
method they like for themselves regardless of where it
comes from.

Danette

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