Voldie's New&Improved POWER BOOSTS- For inempt dark wizards (Re:Talentless DE's)

[aldrea279]

No: HPFGUIDX 40006

<Elkins makes many arguements on how Crouch Jr. could not have gotten 
his Great Vast DA Knowledge from the year or so he spent as a DE>

Alright...so, he got a Power Boost from Voldie.  Yes, that makes good 
sense. I was afraid for a moment while I read your post that Young 
Crouch's knowledge seemed a bit FLINT-y...I mean, he only escaped his 
father on the night of the Quidditch World Cup, correct?  That didn't 
leave him that much time to kidnap Moody, regain his strength, learn 
the things he needs to know to play a convincing Alabastor Moody and 
a very knowledgeable DA teacher- plus contact Voldie to set up that 
ever-so-intricate Triwizard Portkey Cup plot.  


An Elkins Quote: 
> There is some suggestion in the books that either Voldemort himself 
> or allegiance to Dark forces in general might indeed have the      
> ability 
> to imbue wizards with magical powers previously beyond their 
> capabilities.

Soo...becoming a DE means a nice boost in some of your magicalness- 
that's what you're saying, correct?  Well, what an intersting light 
this puts Ex-Death Eater Snape in.  Dear Potions-Master Snape...what 
did he do to get that title, eh? <grin> (this is merely amusing 
speculation...as is what follows)

I like your agruements on Pettigrew's talent.  He's always described 
as a poor wizard, yet he has definately shown himself as being a 
formidable opponent.  This could be that the Power Surge theory 
stands true..or it could be because of Pettigrew's own nature.  I 
believe each of the times he shows some great magical powers is when 
he is extremely threatened/stress/trying to save his own skin.  Young 
wizards who have no training show their magic by magically defending 
themselves when presented in danger/extreme stress-  even as a wizard 
in training, Harry resorts back to this when his emotions run high in 
the Dursley' kitchen.  When Sirius corners Peter(which I believe it 
says Sirius does in the book- you can speculate Pettigrew planned 
this, also, I supose), he has his wand concealed for obvious reasons- 
they are on a Muggle street, after all; and also he would want to 
keep the fact that he is *armed* a secret from Sirius until he 
couldn't help it(maybe hoping Sirius wouldn't attack him if he didn't 
seem armed/going for a surprise attack as a last resort).  So Sirius 
*corners* the terrified man...and as he is, as I undoubtebly believe 
Sirius did do, threatened by the wizard cornering him he just sort of 
goes BOOM with his wand.  He hits the deck and, seizing the moment, 
goes rat (Ha, you can't argue that the boom would have killed him if 
he hadn't perfectly timed the Animagus transformation...Sirius didn't 
die, who was standing close enough to Peter to call it "cornering" 
him.).  The Shrieking Shack- same thing. He was being threatened with 
death/life in Azkaban...that would probably terrify some magic into 
him.  And also, this could be why Voldemort is always 
torturing/berating/yelling at Wormtail- he's trying to terrify some 
magic into the man, and at the same time being all I'm-An-Evil-
Overlord-Who-Doesn't-Give-A-Damn-About-Anyone's-Feelings.

 I'm not trying to shoot down this Power Boost stuff(it actually fits 
pretty well in the series)...just tyring to make sure it can stand on 
two legs.  It does make sense that Voldie would offer people a share 
in his power- not just "IF I take over the world, and IF you live 
through it, you shall have power! Mwahaha!"  But, where they do get 
some down payment on selling themselves to the Dark Side.

As for the DE's little game of moving target with Harry in the 
graveyard:  Hmm, very interesting to look at it from Elkin's point of 
view. It does fit the DE's character.  But at the same time, with Big 
Bad, Recently Resurrected Voldie right there yelling at them, I don't 
know if they would take the chance to miss on purpose... I mean, even 
if one did stop and think "Hey, I don't know if I want to go shooting 
at Harry 'I can block a fully loaded AK!' Potter", if they take one 
look around and see their fellow minions shooting at the kid they'll 
probably decide it would be pretty stupid of themselves to be missing 
on purpose- what if someone notices?  Particuarly, what if Voldemort 
notices and decides to blast them with an AK....he's already pretty 
pissed off at this moment, I'd say. =P

~Aldrea(I believe that's enough random specualtion in one post...)