LV's remaining Death Eaters (Was Goyle sen. in Azkaban?)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85134

> Carol wrote:
> > I haven't checked this out fully, but I think that all the
> > other DEs named by Voldermort in GoF (Avery, Macnair, Malfoy, and
> > Crabbe) were there, along with Rookwood, the Lestranges, Dolohov and
> > others who escaped from Azkaban. (I'm not sure where Jugson fits in;
> > he may be one of the escapees, too, but his name doesn't ring a bell
> > with me.) Anyway, it would appear that most if not all of LV's
> > previously identified DEs except Goyle and Pettigrew (not counting
> > coward Karkaroff and ex-DE Snape) were arrested after the Ministry
> > raid.
> 
> Annemehr:
> Okay, I checked GoF and OoP.  You're right, all of the previously
> identified DEs except Goyle, Pettigrew, and Bellatrix have been
> captured.  I thought it might be interesting to try to estimate how
> many DEs LV might have left:

<snipped, to my great regret, but we have to make this concise for the
list elves>

Now, my impression of the graveyard scene in
> GoF is that there had to have been quite a few DEs that LV passed in
> silence, but I hate to try to put a number on it.  Still, let's see
> what we can come up with for the DEs still at large:
> 
> 2 named DEs from the graveyard who did not participate
> 3 (or 4) escapees who did not participate
> 1 participant (Bellatrix) rescued by LV
> ? unnamed DEs from the graveyard who did not participate
> 
> That leaves Voldemort with more than six DEs, and I would feel pretty
> safe assuming he has at least ten left after the DoM debacle.  So he
> does have a few minions left -- at least half.

Carol:
Thanks for checking into this. It seems to account for Goyle's absence
and I think you're right that we need to take the missing Death Eaters
into account. I suppose Voldemort was too wily to send all of the DEs
to the DoM, though I doubt he expected them to be arrested. He
probably also thought that Harry would be alone and no match for nine
grown men and a woman. Now we just need to figure out which Death
Eater has a head that keeps transforming into a baby's and back again.
(It's possible that was Goyle and was the reason he wasn't mentioned.)

> 
> Carol:
> > P.S. Thanks for backing me up on my Theodore Nott theory,
> > Hickengruendler.
> 
> Annemehr:
> There's one thing I remembered about DE Nott that's interesting,
> though it doesn't affect Hickengruendler's theory too much.  Someone
> once (before OoP) pointed out that in the GoF graveyard, Nott is
> described as a "stooped figure," which makes him sound old -- old
> enough to be Theodore Nott's grandfather, perhaps?

Carol:
I wondered about that, too. Theodore Nott is "weedy" and posssibly
"stringy." Maybe feebleness runs in his family. But Avery, at 49, is
the oldest DE mentioned so far. Most of them seem to be in the same
age range as Snape and Malfoy, that is, mid-thirties to early forties.
Nott, Sr., is apparently a weak character, who grovels before
Voldemort in GoF. Maybe he's stooped from torture and imprisonment in
Azkaban. Voldemort doesn't seem to have recruited many wizards from
the previous generation.

Carol