[HPforGrownups] Re: Couple of Questions regarding Death Eaters and the Dark Mark

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 29347



dkgrubb at earthlink.net wrote:

> Eire 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.
> (snip quotes)
> > So, Roll Call!
> > (snip the roll call)
> > So, that makes it around 15.  Not exactly an army but a start.
> Maybe he
> > didn't call all the names, maybe there were more.
>
> In GOF, Priori Incantatem, fourth paragraph, Harry looks around as he
> prepares to duel and notes that he is outnumbered "at least thirty to
> one".

It could be that Voldemort runs his terror network on the "cell"
principle.  He doesn't want all his deatheaters to show up, just one
from each of his terrorist cells--they can go back and report to the
others.  Helps maintain anonymity--if one person is caught, they can
only name the other people in their cell, not the whole deatheater
network.

Interesting article in Newsweek, btw, comparing the terrorism in HP
universe to ours, post 9-11.  See:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/638176.asp

Peg


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