Imperious Curse:Re: Couple of Questions regarding Death Eaters and the Dark Mark

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 29280

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., eireschilde at b... wrote:
> At the graveyard scene Voldermort calls his deatheaters to his side 
> by using the dark mark, the first thing that struck me here was how 
> few of them there were.
> 

> One conclusion I reached, is maybe a large mass of them were people 
> under the imperious curse? Which lead me to another point that 
> confused me if ALL of LV's supporters were branded with the Dark 
Mark 
> (and this was then used to locate and call them), would this have 
> included those under the imperious curse? And if so why were they 
not 
> called the night of the graveyard? If only those who willingly 
joined 
> the Death Eaters were branded with the mark, then why was this not 
> used to identify, those who worked for him under their own free 
will 
> and those who joined him willingly, after his disappearance.

Hi Eire, welcome to the group. I haven't read GoF for a while, but I 
think it says that Voldemort addressed some DEs and skipped over 
other DEs. In PS/SS, Hagrid tells Harry that some of the DEs appeared 
to have come out of trances when Voldemort fell. It makes sense to me 
that some of Voldemort's followers were Imperious Cursed rather than 
joining willingly.

But what you said is making me think about the Imperious Curse (IC). 
If some DEs were legitimately under the IC and came out of it when 
Voldemort's power was decimated, then I have a question about 
Neville's parents. IF Crouch Jr. was the one who put the Longbottoms 
under the IC, then would the Longbottoms be "cured"? Okay, even if 
the all DEs present (The Lestranges, Nott and Crouch Jr.) IC'd them 
(sort of like how Harry, Ron and Hermione de-wanded Snape in PoA), 
then with the demise of Crouch, Jr's powers the Longbottoms' 
condition should improve somewhat.

Milz