ambitious wizards / ambitious girls / Death Eaters

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52489

Ffred "manawydan" wrote:

<< So where do you go if you are a wizard with political ambitions 
for change? The only place seems to be into conspiracy. >>

Dumbledore is a counterexample. He has ambitions for change: he wants 
the wizard folk to be less bigotted and to learn from the Muggle 
worlds, and his method is to educate the young.

Artsy Lynda wrote:

<< At that age, they're so concerned with what their friends think of 
them, that Cho might actually have to think about it twice if Harry 
asked her first --  what would her friends say (at least Harry's 
taller than she is, but he's no Cedric). >>

Two or three girls whom Harry didn't even know, including one older 
and taller than him, invited him to be their escort to the Ball. 
(Harry refused in an excessively impolite way (because he was totally 
surprised).) At best, they had a crush on him because he was a 
Triwizard Champion and the Boy Who Lived; possibly they just wanted 
the glory of opening the ball by dancing the first dance with 
everyone watching. Either way, it doesn't appear that their friends 
would criticise them for escorting such a shrimpy young boy.   

Stacie Greg Johnson wrote:

<<  So, do we know how the Death Eaters got their name, or why they 
are called thus? >>

I don't know how they got that name, but find it similar to their 
Dark Lord's chosen name. Voldemort is Vol de mort, flight of death 
or flight from death or theft of death or theft from death. 

His quest for immortality fits with flight (running away) from death 
and theft (of his life) form death, and with Death Eaters bragging 
that they too will conquer Death so thoroughly that they can eat it 
up and spit it out. 

While his killing all those people goes along with flight of death 
(that lands on their poor house with the Dark Mark over the ruins) 
and theft of death (stealing from the Angel of Death the privilege 
of deciding when people are to die) and that goes along with Death 
Eaters bragging that they get the more power the more people they 
kill. 

A theory has been suggested that all that killing wasn't just for 
fun or vengeance, but rather Voldemort's method of immortality 
required absorbing other people's life-force by killing them.