Of identities and truth(and Death Eaters, oh my!)

[aldrea279]

No: HPFGUIDX 38948

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "marinafrants" <rusalka at i...> wrote:
> Here's something else I thought of that fits:  the Death Eaters wear
> hooded cloaks and masks.  Not only does this conceal their 
identities,
> it makes them pretty much indistinguishable from each other.  They
> stop being individuals and become Voldemort's faceless tools.

Ah, and is this for Voldemort's benefit or their's?

I was watching Silence of The Lambs the other night when it came on 
TV, and this one particular scene now sticks out in my mind:
On the television, it was showing the the young kinapped girl's 
mother pleading with "Bufalo Bill" to let her daughter go.  She 
continually repeated the girl's name, and a person watching the TV 
commented on this:  saying that it was smart of the mother to be 
repeating the girl's name in an attempt to make the captor realize 
that her daughter is a real person- making it harder for him to kill 
her.  Do you think this could apply to Voldemort as well when he 
keeps his DE's hooded and masked?  Hmm...making them lose some of 
their more human individualities so as to make it easier for him to 
send them killing and rampaging about? I'm definately not going to 
read alot into Voldemort somehow being not Totally Evil, but it's 
just a though.

Then again, it could be for his DE's benefit. Perhaps he requires 
them to remain hooded and masked so if one is caught, he can't easily 
give his fellow DE's away-  they were hooded and masked, how can they 
possibly be sure of the each other's true identities?  And also, it 
represents a sort of militant sameness, does it not?  They must look 
indistinguishable from each other, and perhaps that helps to harden 
them, become less human in doing their jobs.  Also, to play on the 
disguise idea- perhaps wearing their Death Eater costumes, putting on 
their masks and hiding their identities makes it easier for them to 
pretend they're someone else and do the dirty work.

~Aldrea