Female Death Eaters

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No: HPFGUIDX 15009

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., lsease at s... wrote:
>     There are strong female characters at Hogwarts, but equality 
does 
>  not seem to carry over to Voldemort's side. Where are all the 
strong 
> evil women?  When Harry is with the Death Eaters near the end of 
GOF, 
> all the Death Eaters he sees are men. Voldemort mentions the 
> Lestranges are in Azkaban, and someone has told Harry earlier that
> the 
> Lestranges are a married couple, but Mrs.L seems to be the only 
woman 
> in Voldemort's inner circle. Draco's mother appears to support the 
> dark arts, she is married to Lucius, and she must realize there are 
 
> valuable Dark Arts items hidden under their drawing-room floor. But 
> she evidently does not have the dark mark. Maybe Mrs. Malfoy does 
not 
> support the Dark Arts, but some of the women must. I am not 
pro-Voldy 
> but I just find this odd. Is Voldy sexist as well as generally evil?

We don't know how many Death Eaters there were during Voldemort's 
initial rise to power and we don't know the sex of all of those who 
appeared in the circle in GoF. Voldemort spoke to some of them and 
others he did not. We really don't know how the Death Eaters are 
organized. Are the Death Eaters only those branded with the Dark Mark? 
Or are the branded Death Eaters the upper echelon of the Dark Side and 
lower level Death Eaters are unbranded? 

Demelza