The Death Eaters Are Off Their Game?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 71785

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Danger Mouse" 
<dangermousehq at h...> wrote:
> I found the Department of Mysteries fight scenes rather strange 
and... dare I say, Unbelievable? Here we have a handful of students 
who for the longest time beat the living Spam out of a bunch of 
qualified evil wizards and witches (trained under the Most Evil Lord 
Thingy). Does it make sense that these wizards, clearly Oh-So-Evil 
enough to pull off Unforgivables, choose not to use them? Not one 
fatality for the Students. Little Harry manages to do a good enough 
Protego charm to protect himself from various curses, so why not the 
DEs? Sure, they were trying to get the prophecy back to Lord Thingy, 
but there were plenty of times they could've killed/seriously injured 
one of the kids. Why not do a quick switching spell on one of the 
brains and one of Ron's vital organs? It doesn't need to be accurate--
even done wrong, it'd still probably kill him... were they just 
forgetting that they're the bad guys who are supposed to be more 
skilled and underhanded than a couple teenagers?
> 
> Disbelievingly,
> Dan

What I found hard to believe was the scene before the fight even 
started -  when the kids and the DEs are standing there and talking.  
Harry keeps trying to keep the dialogue going, because he's 
desperately trying to come up with a plan to get every one out of 
there and protect the prophecy.  The whole bit about muttering under 
his breath to Hermione or whoever was near him seemed a bit of a 
stretch.  Sure, he was engaging Lucius at the time, but there were a 
bunch of other DEs standing there who could have actually been paying 
attention to any other sounds that escaped Harry's mouth and who 
might have thought about keeping an eye on the other students, just 
to make sure they didn't make any sudden moves. Apparently, this 
escaped their notice.

Marianne