Three Missing Death Eaters (WAS: don't know if this has been discussed...)

[Haggridd <jkusalavagemd@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52862

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tom Wall 
<thomasmwall at y...>"  
> IMO it is WAY too obvious and easy to make connections 
> here. We've got three dead, and three who should be there but 
> aren't. 
> The clear connections that the author wants us to make here for 
the  absent live ones are, IMO:
> 
> The coward = Karkaroff
> The traitor = Snape
> The faithful one = Crouch, Jr.
> 
> But we make these connections because this is what the narrative 
> has  led us to believe.  I don't think that we're 
> connecting the words with the correct people because of the plot 
> twists in the novel.
>  
> -Tom

 I enjoyed your analysis greatly, but one thing makes me believe-- 
and it is only a belief, because your theory is quite plausible-- 
that in this case the ostensible characters LV references in the 
above passage are the correct ones, is that I cannot recall an 
instance where a red herring like this has not been resolved within 
the same  volume.  JKR has foreshadowed in earlier volumes events 
that have  come to pass in subsequent volumes, but this has not been 
the case  for red herrings or false trails.  I suppose that there is 
always a  first time, but this has been her pattern, and I, for one, 
am betting on it.
 
Haggridd