DE Identification & the Cold War

[karenkyla3 <karenkyla3@aol.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 53148

Okay, this has probably been discussed before but I was wondering 
about something.  If the DEs each have a mark, why have they not been 
rounded up by the MoM in this way?  Let's say (as I agree) that this 
is too easy and some hitch prevents it such as it is only visible to 
them or V.  They still display this by what they call V.  In fact, 
has anybody ever done a study cataloging what each character calls 
him?  It seems that everyone who calls him The Dark Lord is either a 
DE or a house-elf of a DE, while those aligned with Dumbledore call 
him you-know-who (of course with a couple exceptions as Harry and 
Dumbledore call him Voldemort).  But this does seem to be a pretty 
consistent system and may be our clue to determining who spies and/or 
traitors might be.  And while obviously in the book they could not 
accuse people of being DE just based on what they call Voldemort, one 
would think it would at least rouse their suspicion or allow for some 
sort of magical search warrant?  

Which leads to another thought I'd had - the books have alluded to 
the paranoia created during Voldemort's previous rise to power.  The 
MoM appeared to use less than honorable tactics to catch DEs and it 
was mentioned somewhere (I'm sorry I don't use more specific quotes, 
but I'm at work!) that it wasn't safe to talk to strange wizards, 
hinting that you didn't know who was sided with whom.  The danger 
alluded to at the end of GoF is that they could be heading that way 
again.  I know a lot of comparisons have been made with WW2 and the 
Holocaust, but this really reminds me very much of the 'red scare' 
this country underwent in the Cold War where people were blacklisted 
and everybody was a communist spy.  Interesting that our country in 
many ways appears to be heading that way again in respect to 
mideastern terrorists.  I wonder how much this factors into J.K.'s 
thoughts as she is writing?  

Stacey

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