[HPforGrownups] Death Eater 'shifts' (was McGonagall disloyal?)

[Jennifer Kington]

No: HPFGUIDX 29995

Obviously this is guess work, but it sounded to me like LV has a hierarchy 
at work here. In that case, those guys would have been the inner circle, 
those closest to him, and therefore entitled to know each other since they 
work closely together. The rest are just minions to varying degrees of 
usefulness, perhaps working under one of the members of the inner circle. 
The circle would only know each other and the people who work for them 
individually. Hopefully that made some sort of sense! :) P.S. They also 
might have some sort of system... "What to do when the Dark Mark is burning 
on your arm... apparate to him or be expecting a visit soon..." Something 
like that...


>From: Klawzie <klawzie at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Death Eater 'shifts' (was McGonagall 
>disloyal?)
>Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:02:51 -0800 (PST)
>
>
> > You also have to take into consideration what Voldie
> > said when he was resurected referring to 6 Death
> > Eaters, 3 dead, One too cowardly to return
>(Karkaroff, who we learned ran away when the Dark Mark
> >appeared on his arm)
>
>Here's a question then:
>
>Are we sure this wasn't just the "first shift" of
>Death Eaters to show up? There certainly seemed to be
>a lot of them at the World Cup. And it was mentioned
>in the book that not all Death Eaters knew each other
>(by name). Surely Lord V wouldn't be in the habit of
>addressing them by name in front of the others if he
>wanted them to be unaware of each other, in case of a
>spy.
>
>So perhaps the group that appeared at the graveyard
>was a "first shift". This was a group that worked
>together and knew each other, and various key
>characters "just happened" to be in that group. (Which
>would explain Snape's 'preference' for Malfoy...
>Lucius 'knows' that he's a Death Eater.)
>
>After he recovers from the graveyard scene, he'd
>probably have sent the "First Shift" back home/to
>bases and summoned the others. We don't really know
>how those Dark Marks work, do we? Perhaps he does a
>certain thing to one member's Dark Mark (like he did
>to Wormtail) and that would "call" those with
>'matching' Dark Marks.
>
>This of course, could be another example of JKR's
>problem with numbers & consistancy. ^^; But I
>certainly believe there are supposed to be more Death
>Eaters than those who showed up in the graveyard.
>Especially considering "all those" Death Eaters who
>WERE jailed...there should have been MORE empty spaces
>for them, right?
>
>~Klawz
>klawz_hangar at hotmail.com
>http://klawzie.tripod.com
>
>PS: Re: McConagall --- I hope everyone knows I'm NOT
>serious about her being a 'double agent'. I'm not sure
>how well that came across since most of the replies I
>got on the subject seemed to not even entertain the
>idea even for a "fun project". :)
>
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