Voldie & various DEs

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86768

> Christopher suddenstrike wrote: 
> << Something that struck me as odd about OOP was the suspicously easy
> defeat of a group of adult, experienced, evil death eaters by a group
> of school children, who, with the possible exception of harry, don't
> have anything like as much power. >>
> 

Catlady responded:
> Several of them have the excuse of long years in Azkaban that weakened
> their magic and their sanity.


Carol:
Excellent point. I wonder how they maintained their sanity (if we can
call it that, taking Bellatrix as an example). It's a wonder they have
any wits or power left at all. And maybe those who were in Azkaban
aren't even using their own wands, which would have been taken away
from them and possibly destroyed. And what about the Dementors? Sirius
withstood them by focusing first on his innocence and then on his plan
to escape and avenge himself on Peter Pettigrew. What did Bellatrix
and Dolohov hold onto? The memory of their own cruelty? Evidently the
sick pleasure Bellatrix found in torturing the Longbottoms didn't
qualify as happiness or it would have been sucked out of her. And
Dolohov, who murdered the Prewetts, seems at least equally evil and
cruel. Maybe they nursed their malice for twelve years. The Lestrange
brothers, OTOH, may have been so greatly weakened as to be nearly
useless. And Rookwood, too, is not at his peak, having recently been
Crucio'd for forgetting an important detail relating to the prophecy.
Nott, who was not in Azkaban, seems somewhat old and feeble; Malfoy
contemptuously orders the others to leave him behind when he falls. So
that leaves dim-witted Crabbe, Macnair the beast-slayer, Jugson, about
whom we know exactly nothing, and Mulciber, whom I can't remember
anything about. How many of them really had their hearts set on
stealing the prophecy for a cruel master and battling a bunch of
children? Lucius, Bellatrix, Macnair, and Dolohov I would not hesitate
to call evil. Probably the Lestrange brothers, too, since they
Crucio'd the Longbottoms along with Bellatrix and Barty Jr. But maybe
the others are like Regulus and would much rather be home living their
own lives, wishing that Voldemort had not returned.

Carol