Death Eaters and their children (was Nott's kid)

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 43450

Naama wrote:
> Gabrielle responds:
> 
> > Snape? A kid? Interesting. Who would the lucky lady be? Would 
> > she  be a DE as well? Would she know Snape's a DE? 
> 
>  My turn (Naama):
>  
>  The fact that all known DE-related kids were born in tha same year 
> is  interesting indeed. And the fact that Harry was born at the same 
> year... could this be one of the reasons for LV to kill Harry?
>  
>  And another thing- you ask who the lucky lady is. Well, I've no idea 
> about that. But lucky? Do you really think so? Is it reasonable for 
> so many women to get pregnant at such a short while by mere chance?
>
> Love is not V's way. I think LV, not wanting his reign of terror to 
> die with his DE, planned what you might call "Death Eaters- the next 
> generation". He picks the women suitable for the task and bewitches 
> them to make sure each one of his DE will have an heir, and the 
> heirs  will be born at the wanted time. Perhaps even bewitching his 
> DE as  well, for the same purpose (wild thought- Snape turning spy 
> because not liking to be thought as easily replaced or toyable like 
> that?)

The trouble with the "next generation idea" normally is that LV's plans 
do NOT include leaving anything to posterior generations when this 
current batch of DEs die, since he plans to saty arround to *see* next 
generation (and all the following ones), since he wants to become 
immortal. However, you raise a particular point that I had not 
considered: what if he only looks for his own immortality, i.e. he 
hasn't offered his DEs to become immortal when he finds the right 
formula? I always assumed that this would be part of the "wages", that 
is, that he promises them immortality in exchange for being Voldemort's 
canon fodder and sycophants.

The thing with that suposition is, in fact, that Voldemort wouldn't 
want *other* immortal people running around, because they could become 
his enemies at the drop of a hat. After all, his power base is fear, 
not loyalty. Of course, this raises the question: exactly, what's in 
there for them? Power? I hope they're not joining forces with the big V 
just to anhilate the entire muggle population and most of the wizard 
one. I know people can be irrational when they're elitists/racists/
xenophobic/etc. but there also tends to be an underlying goal hidden 
beneath it. Pure, untainted cruelty is something that needs a very 
special kind of (deranged) mind, and I don't think ALL the DEs have 
that kind of mind. Lucius, for example, looks too cold-blooded by half 
to let that be his only objective.

There are a few details that need ironing out, though. Wizards live a 
long time, so this new DE batch is not a replacement. Their parents, if 
they're all are the age of Lucius Malfoy, have still a long life before 
them, so I don't see why Voldemort would arrange the new generation so 
soon. There are, however, a couple of reasons he could, though. First, 
I like the idea that he didn't actually tell the future parents what 
was going on. He just prepared a spell, and used the DE marks, or one 
of his reunions, to bewitch the whole lot in one go, instead of going 
one by one. As a consecuence, the children would be very much 
concentrated in time (allowing a bit of slack for the natural chance 
involved in getting a woman pregnant).

The second reason I can think of involves the infamous first prophecy, 
but I'm not really into the prophecy theory, so I'll allow any other 
listee to take a shot at developing the idea. Basically, The prophecy 
mentions a boy born in Harry's year doing great things (either for good 
or bad), and V wants to control him for reasons of his own.

The third idea is that Voldemort ordered the new batch just after a 
particular nasty bloodbath between aurors and DEs, when Voldemort 
suddenly discovers that he was running out of people to shout at, and 
he ordered his DE to grow and multiply so he could double the number of 
troops. This theory I don't really like, since it doesn't wash in 
several points. One, that bloodbath hasn't, as far as we know, 
happened, and something of that level would probably have been 
mentioned somewhere. Also, Voldmort doesn't believe in big armies, 
according to my favourite theory MAGIC DISWASHER and to clues in the 
books, since a terrorist group that depends on hiding and secrecy 
cannot be too big, or it would be impossible to hide. Finally, why 
would he only order 1 batch? After all, if he wants to have 
replacements handy (I know I'm sounding cold-blooded about people here, 
but this IS Voldemort we're speaking about), why didn't he order his 
DEs to continue reproducing? A child every year would increase his army 
much faster than just one new DE generation.

> Just a thought...
>  
>   Naama,
>  who is proud to finally take a more active part than prowling the 
>  dark corridors of the group after hours, being new around...

Welcome to active posting, them, Naama. See you around!

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf