Death Eaters (was The Next Victim)

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No: HPFGUIDX 28635

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Eric Oppen" <oppen at c...> wrote: (about 
Hermione):
>  She's also Muggle-born, which for some reason the DEs
> don't like (you know, I always thought the Death Eaters would make 
more
> sense as a movement of Muggle-born and half-blood mages to 
overthrow the
> pureblood families that unfairly hold them back---Tom Riddle/Lord 
Moldyvort
> is half-blood himself, after all) and being close to Harry Potter 
puts her
> in danger.
> --Eric, who has a more morbid mind than most of his friends would 
prefer
                 Speculation ahead:
Pureblood families who hate muggle born and half-blood wizards have 
been around at least from the time of Salazar Slytherin, who seems to 
have been one himself, and probably a lot longer.  I think that Tom 
Riddle joined a group of them
and gradually took over, organizing them into the Death 
Eaters. He was talented, they accepted him at first thinking to use 
him ("Isn't it amusing, seeing the mudblood rave about mudbloods!" 
sort of thing).  As his powers grew they were too afraid to challenge 
his leadership.
Not that they don't still despise his muggle blood, but 
who'd be crazy enough to tell him?  In 13 years they didn't make too 
much of an effort to find him, as he said himself in GOF.

Donna