OOP: Different Evil Weasley?

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 67860

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "greatlit2003" <hieya at h...> 
wrote:
> Could Bill be the evil Weasley? Maybe Percy is not the deviant 
after 
> all.

My opinion is, that there won't be an evil Weasley (I mean evil in 
the sense, that they are in league with Voldemort). I just can't 
imagine it. I know that JKR is the master of plot twists, but I can't 
see any of these people as actually really evil. 

> Bill was in the hospital wing with Harry & company after 
> Voldie's return in GoF. There was no reason for him to be there in 
> terms of the plot, except he left at the end to contact his father 
> (but Mrs. Weasley could have done that when she got home). What if 
> it wasn't his father that he contacted? 

I think they could have found it out very easily. They just had to 
ask Arthur, if Bill told him. And I think Molly had to stay at 
Harry's bedside in this night.
> 
> In OOP, why did he leave Egypt to come work in Britain 
> if "Dumbledore wants as many foreign wizards brought in as 
> possible" ? (p. 70 US edition) Charlie remains in Romania to 
recruit 
> foreigners to the Order. 

Maybe the beautiful Fleur Delacour was a reason. ;-) *g*
 
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> 
> Bill is around the age of the DEs. I am guessing that he is in his 
> late 20s, and many of the DEs (Snape, Lestrange, Avery, etc) are in 
> their mid 30s.

This is a bit problematic, because we don't know, how old exactly 
Bill is. But lets say he is already 30 (and this is IMO really the 
maximum, considering the age of Percy and the younger silblings). 
That would have made him 15 or 16 when Voldemort vanished. Don't you 
think that is a bit young for a Death Eater? Especially from such a 
tolerant family like the Weasleys. I mean, it is not impossible, but 
I think it is highly unlikely. Draco Malfoy is currently around that 
age, and even he isn't a Death Eater currently. (Or at least he 
didn't kill anyone, otherwise he would have seen the Thestrals).
 
> Bill has to have a knowledge of Dark Magic if his career involves 
> breaking curses. He probably studied N.E.W.T. level DADA (or more)
> 
True, but I don't think that makes him a Death Eater.

Hickengruendler