[HPforGrownups] Re: The Death Eaters Are Off Their Game?

[Lady Macbeth]

No: HPFGUIDX 71910

Kristen Said:
>>> I believe that the DE's didn't believe that the children posed any
real threat to them. They aren't like Voldemort. They don't kill at
the drop of a hat or they would have killed the lot of them and
concentrated on retrieving the Prophecy from Harry. I have one
exception though...Bellatrix Lestrange is dangerous.
>Snipped<

If the Prophecy hadn't been destroyed, Bellatrix surely would have
obtained it and she would have killed the entire lot. Actually, if
the OoP hadn't shown up when it did, the children were doomed
Prophecy in hand or not, Bellatrix was not going to let any of them
out of there alive. The question remains though...if Voldemort
couldn't kill Harry, can Bellatrix? Maybe not, but she surely can
send him to St. Mungo's a mental vegetable.<<<

Lady Macbeth:

Bellatrix Lestrange is dangerous because she's of the same mindset as Barty
Crouch Jr.  She's one of those Voldemort named as his truly loyal followers
who went to Azkaban instead of pretending to be innocents forced to do
Voldemort's work.

That's where I think the difference between how she treated the kids and how
the others did comes in as well.  They're protecting their own hides as much
as doing Voldemort's bidding.  Bellatrix is bending over backwards to not
only do his bidding but to excel at it and please him as well.

-Lady Macbeth



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