OOP Death Eaters

[Jenn Oramous]

No: HPFGUIDX 66770

   Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:09:10 -0400
   From: the firey chasm from whence it came <explodingstar at adelphia.net>
Subject: Re: Digest Number 3173


>2 How come Dumbledor does not do something to stop the
>horrible,
>most evil, truly terrifying Bellatrix?

He was probably too preoccupied with the even more evil Voldemort. A great
wizard has to keep his priorities straight, you know. ;)

>And
>how come all the Aurors could not defeat and
>completely subdue the
>Deatheaters?

Because then the series could have ended with the 5th book!

>3 The Death Eaters on the whole are a bit confusing.
>First of all,
>not all of them even think of using Avada Kedavra...

Maybe JKR just wanted to use other spells. For the sake of variety. Who
knows? Just because you're a DE doesn't necessarily mean you're
intelligent. Sure, using AK might have been smarter, but keep in mind that
these are all purebloods and therefore, inbred. And you know what they say
about folks who marry their cousins...;)

>Dolohov,
>supposedly really evil, jinxes Neville into tap-dance?
>It's almost a
>joke!

Yeah, that is kind of funny, come to think of it. I don't know. This is a
battle scene though and I suspect that people aren't always at their most
logical when they're in a battle situation. Possibly he just said the first
spell that came to his mind.


><snip>
>
>Do all DE's have the ability to AK?

I would think so, but we don't know that for sure. It is a "dark art", and
you'd think they'd have learned all the basic Dark Arts from V. On the
other hand, it's possible that they can't use AK without V.'s
authorization. Perhaps they can only kill on his orders. We don't really
know that much about the command structure of the DEs, or what their
overall strategy tends to be.

~dream

Now ME (Jenn):

All very good points, Dream. But has anyone realized that in the fight scene
the DEs were not trying to kill HRHrNLG because they had the prophecy! That
is why they didn't just AK everybody. They didn't know if the prophecy had
been passed off to anyone, much less that it had been broken already.

As far as someone else being able to touch the Prophecy. Obviously, after
its has been taken off the shelf the protection spell (the one that turns
you loony) has been broken. Because Lucious asks for the prophecy without
fear of being jinxed (by the prophecy) and HP later tosses it to Neville who
holds it to no effect.

That's just my two knuts! BTW sorry if someone else has already made these
points but it is hopeless to try to keep up with every single post! We are
just buzzin around here! :-)

Jenn