Snape and the Potters

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 47283

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jacqui" <jasonjacqui at y...> wrote:
> Another question I have is....Why didn't "Mad-Eye" go to V. like 
> everyone else?  Was is because he couldn't disapparate, or was 
Crouch 
> still pretending? 

I hadn't thought of that - are we really sure that Crouch actually 
IS a DE?  I mean, just going by the timeline, if he was 18 when he 
was tried, how old would he have been when V. fell?  Sixteen?  
That's just very young, it seems to me, to be admitted to such an 
elite group.  The DE always seemed to me to be like Hitler's inner 
circle - his oldest friends, whose loyalty had been proven - the 
sort of people who'd have been in the Bunker at the end.  A boy 
still at school would have difficulty doing anything that would get 
him noticed.  That doesn't mean he couldn't have been on V.'s side, 
and working for him - just like the Nazis, I assume there must have 
been different levels of access to V., and people would probably 
be "promoted" to DE after they'd proven themselves.  (Makes me 
wonder, too, what Snape did to join the elite, since he wasn't much 
older than Crouch.)

Wanda