DEs recognising one another?-DE's at the graveyard (was Re: Who's Afraid Of The

[mrflynn6]

No: HPFGUIDX 36916

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "naamagatus" <naama_gat at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amanda" <editor at t...> wrote:
> > Naama said, about whether the DEs could recognize each other via 
> the Dark
> > mark:
> 
> 
> <bouncing back> However,  WHY would Voldemort allow his followers 
to 
> be so easily exposed? I would have thought that a secret 
organisation 
> such as the DEs would be much more careful about keeping the 
members' 
> identity secret, wouldn't you? Maybe it works as a mechanism for 
> identification only if both DEs activate it (meaning that the 
> revelation has to be voluntary - one DE can't force another DE to 
be 
> revealed to him, unless the other wills it also. Does that make 
> sense?)
>    
> 
> Naama


If I might add to this:  on p. 588 of the US version of GoF, when 
Karkaroff was giving testimony before the Ministry (Harry was using 
Dumbledore's pensive), he stated that "He Who Must Not Be Named 
operated always in the greatest secrecy...His supporters...never knew 
the names of everyone of our fellows-He alone knew exactly who we all 
were-".  

Perhaps death eaters only knew those they would be working with.  An 
example would be that Malfoy would know those DE's that assisted him 
with Muggle torture.  Were the DE's that came to the graveyard 
the "inner circle" of the Dark Lord's.  Were they his "executive 
board"?

Gretchen