Death Eaters and their children

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 43302

Sorry for the shortish post, but aren't we taking a bit for granted here?

We know that there is a Crabbe, a Goyle, a Malfoy and a Nott in the same year 
as Harry. We know that there are Death Eaters of those names who showed up at 
Voldy's rebirthday party. We know that the Malfoy at the party is the 
Hogwarts-age Malfoy's father.  We don't actually know anything beyond that. 
Harry *assumes* that the elder Crabbe and Goyle are "his" Crabbe and Goyle's 
fathers. But we don't know that he was right about that. There is nothing 
written in the rule book that says that Slytherin families are limited to one 
son per generation. The elder Crabbe, Goyle and Nott could be uncles. Or 
grandfathers, cousins, or even, given wizarding lifespans, older brothers. Or 
any combination of the above.

As to the Nott in Harry's class; we have clues. 

1. As has been pointed out by more than one person, there were four or five 
as yet unidentified names at Harry's sorting ceremony. IIRC among those were 
Morag MacDougal (a girl), "Moon", "Nott", and a Sally Ann Perks (another 
girl). There may have been others that Harry missed completely, being 
somewhat preoccupied at the time. 

2. In Goblet, if not earlier, there is at least one reference aluding to 
Pansy Parkinson and her *gang of Slytherin girls*. Well the only other 
Slytherin girl we know to put a name to is Milicent Bulstrode. But, two 
people do not constitute a gang, any way you slice it. (Even if one of them 
IS Milicent Bulstrode.) At least a couple of the as yet unidentified names 
are most likely to be Slytherin girls and part of Pansy's little "gang". They 
could even all be. (Though that seems unlikely.) 

However; if the Nott is indeed from a DE family and has been brought up to 
hold those kind of "values", it is very likely that she is part of Pansy's 
gang. But, then, You also have to remember that the Nott at the rebirthday 
party could have been the black sheep of an otherwise blameless family. 

In short, we have plenty of information to generate fanfics from (if that's 
your thing) but not enough to really draw solid conclusions. Yet.

-JOdel