Death Eaters (was The Next Victim)

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No: HPFGUIDX 28643

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., bookraptor11 at y... wrote:
> --- 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

Intruiging how Voldemorts rise to power resembles that from a very 
well known german dictator. Hitler didn't exactly had pure german 
blood, but was nevertheless feared by all pure germans (this sounds a 
bit awkward, but you get the point).
Maybe this goes a bit far, but the resemblance is, as I said, 
intruiging.

Merlijn