DEs recognising one another?

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 36915

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "elirtai" <ruben at s...> wrote:
> Naama wrote:
> > Voldemort would never allow a mechanism that would enable one DE 
> > to recognise another. Remember we're talking about a secret 
> > organisation - for one member to potentially be able to point out 
> ALL 
> > other members means that one traitor can bring down the whole 
> > organisation. 
> 
> I mostly agree with that. And think how they all are "hooded and 
> masked" when they answer the summons... but shortly after that, 
> Voldemort calls them all by their names.
> (GoF chapter 33, "The Death Eaters").
> 
> Does that mean they already knew, rather than just suspected about 
> each other? Or is Voldemort changing the modus operandi in his 
second 
> rise to power?
> 

Yes, it does seem as though Voldemort expects them to know each 
other, doesn't it? It doesn't harmonize with what we learn from the 
trials we see in the Pensieve. If all DEs know about all the other 
DEs, you would think that Snape for one (as Dumbledore's spy) would 
have pointed them all out then. There would have been no need to free 
Karkaroff in exchange for information regarding the DEs. 
So maybe Voldemort is changing his modus operandi now. Why, though? 
Is there any reason why he should be less cautious in his second rise 
than in his first? Is he stronger now than he was in the past? 

Naama