Unaccounted DEs

[KathyK]

No: HPFGUIDX 74879

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinwolf2001" 
<lupinwolf2001 at y...> wrote:
> GREAT THREAD!!!
> 
> Now Harry estimated "at least about 30" death eaters would fill the 
> circle in the cemetary in GOF. 
> 
> We have Confirmed in the cicle Crabbe, Goyle, Nott, McNair, Malfoy, 
> Wormtail. He then mentions 3 dead, one is a coward and one is gone 
> forever.
> 
> However, my question is this... we know that 10 wizards escaped 
> azkaban and that at least some of them were death eaters...
> 
> That said, WHY DOES VOLDEMORT SEEM TO IMPLY THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWO 
> OF HIS FOLLOWERS IN AZKABAN if there are far more???
> 
> IF there are 30 altogether (Harry's judgement by the circle around 
> him) and only 3 are dead that leaves at least 27 more to be 
accounted 
> for. 20 are mentioned. That leaves 10 more unaccounted for... why 
> might they be?
> 
> but again, why would voldemort mention the lestanges in azkaban but 
> not the rest of the DEs that went there for him?

Maybe because the Lestranges were particularly loyal to him, 
especially Bellatrix.  They could, next to Crouch Jr. be his favorite 
followers.  In the cemetary he could have been using them as an 
example of what he values in his followers as compared with those who 
surrounded him, cowards who denied him the moment he disappeared.  
Or perhaps he just didn't have the time to go through all the missing 
DE's from the circle as he was too excited about killing Harry.  

KathyK