Death Eater Baby Boom

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No: HPFGUIDX 43453

Naama wrote:

<< 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? (snip) 
I think LV, not wanting his reign of terror to die with his DEs, 
planned what you might call "Death Eaters- the next generation". >>

Grey Wolf wrote:

<< 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. >>

Hi, NAAMA the new! (A concept that surprised me until I remembered 
that listie Naama Gata is not the only Naama in the world.) I posted 
my theory on the Death Eater spawn, in my post #42888 from 8/18/02:

<< My theory is that Voldemort believes in Prophecies and Divination, 
and he discovered that it was written in the stars (or whatever) that 
a boy in Britain conceived around Halloween 1979 and born around 
Lammas 1980 would have exceptional magic powers. He wanted this 
boy's powers to be a weapon he could use AND he wanted to make sure 
that this boy's powers would not become a weapon for the Light Side. 
He figured that the way to do that was for the boy to be born and 
raised among his loyal followers. So he ordered his Death Eaters to 
go out and spawn at the appointed time, and they obeyed, but none of 
their children were the Prophesied Boy: HARRY, of course, was the 
Prophesied Boy.

(I have a Britspeak problem with my theory: I imagine Voldemort 
telling his circle of Death Eaters what to do, and they all 
prostrated themselves and pledged obedience, but afterwards, Crabbe 
and Goyle (whom I imagine to be not too bright) asked Malfoy what had 
the Dark Lord ordered them to do, and Malfoy answered in language his 
thugs would understand. In US-speak, he would have said: "He told you 
to go home and knock up your wives", but "knock up" doesn't mean 
"impregnate" in UK-speak, and "he told you to put your wives in the 
family way" doesn't sound vulgar enough.) 

(snip)

I don't think he wanted to 'ensure another generation of greatness': 
he planned to live forever and wouldn't have wanted to create any 
rivals. It was only servants he meant to create. >>

Hey, GREY WOLF!

Presumably Voldemort could (and, according to me, did) promise his 
DEs immortality as a reward, but never intend to give it to them. As 
for what other awards various DEs might have intended to get:

Lucius Malfoy, who is power-hungry to the point of insanity, thinks 
he is 'the power behind the throne' and can become all-powerful in 
the wizarding world by using Voldemort.

Various Ministry employees know that Voldemort has great influence at 
the Ministry (probably without knowing specifically which big shots 
are Death Eaters), which will get them accelerated raises and 
promotions.

People who own businesses are faced with the choice between having 
the Dark Side send some business their way and attack their 
competitors, or having the Dark Side attack them to help their 
competitors.

'Career criminal' types -- burglars, armed robbers, serial rapists, 
maybe even barroom brawlers, all the people who are in and out of 
jail all the time -- would be pleased that Voldemort arranges for 
them not to be arrested anymore, and for their previous records to 
be lost by the Ministry.

Some people would join the DEs in exchange for Mulciber putting one 
or two pretty women under Imperius to be their sex slaves. 

And of course there are the reasons that were already suggested:
. intellectual interest in Dark Arts
. sincere fear that Muggles are trying to destroy wizarddom
. sincere hatred of 'Mudbloods'
. welcoming the excuse to beat, kill, rape, and terrorize 
. "Join us or we'll kill your children"