[HPforGrownups] Children of Death Eaters

[Pen Robinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 60283


On Thursday, Jun 12, 2003, at 14:28 Europe/London, Sue White wrote:

>
> New here, and please forgive me in advance if this has
> already been discussed.
>
> I think it's quite a remarkable coincidence that the
> children of the death eaters; Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle
> are the same age.

Um.  I think it depends on many things, not least of which is, how many 
Death Eaters there were altogether.   We are told that Voldemort had 
quite a lot of supporters, and logically, many of them must have been 
of parenting age.  (With wizards being so long-lived, it's possible a 
male wizard could father children for a century or so.  More, maybe.  
Goyle might be the youngest of a family of seventeen, Crabbe the eldest 
of many rotten little apples.)

I suspect that there are other DE offspring at Hogwarts.  But they are 
not in Harry's year, or in their house Quidditch team, so he is 
unlikely to recognise their names.  After all, which DEs does he 
recognise?  The ones with whose names he is already familiar - Malfoy, 
Crabbe, Goyle, MacNair, a couple of others stick in his mind.   We know 
that Voldemort does not greet all the returning DEs by name in any case 
- there could be a Parkinson, a Zabini, a Patil or even a Sprout in 
there for all we know.

It may be that there is some dark reason why Death Eaters were 
requested to produce sons who would be contemporary with Harry Potter, 
Ron Weasley and Neville Longbottom, but we've yet to be given canon 
evidence for it.   But as for it being a coincidence that Malfoy and 
his sidekicks are the same age - not really.   There are probably 
plenty of other children of DEs who are not the same age as Harry.  We 
just haven't been told about them.

Pen