DE kids

[gingerssnape1966]

No: HPFGUIDX 54731

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, The Sparrow wrote:
(big snip)
 I need to ask if the
> Crabbe and Goyle at the confrontation with Voldemort
> at the end of GoF are the same C and G Hary go to
> school with, or their parents? Can kids be Death
> Eaters and if so, why isn't Draco one? Is he? > 

Me:
I realize that this is an assumption, but I have assumed that they 
are the parents because 
(1) JKR would probably not have used those particular names were they 
not significant, 
(2) the pair in the graveyard seem as thick at the two at school,
(3) the kids are Slytherins, and
(4) the kids are not only too young to have become DE's when "he" was 
still in power (as others have mentioned), but they also could not 
have apparated to the meeting.  We have no cannonical proof that they 
were at the third task, but even had they been privy to the graveyard 
meeting (which none of the other DE's seemed to be) and were lurking 
in the vicinity of Hogsmead waiting to apparate, there is still the 
fact that they are too young to apparate legally.  Not that this 
would have stopped a DE, but when apparition is discussed at the 
beginning of GoF, Mr Weasley tells of the danger involved.  If 
Hermione were to learn it early and try to use it, I would believe 
it, but Crabbe and Goyle?  They'd probably splinch and half-land in 
Parliment.
Which could be very interesting.

Ginger, who is hoping work is called off today due to the impending 
blizzard.  In April! Imagine that!