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

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 85145

Carol wrote:
> Now we just need to figure out which Death
> Eater has a head that keeps transforming into a baby's and back again.

Annemehr:
All righty!
Well, it was very kind of JKR to have Lucius Malfoy name all the Death
Eaters as he was pairing them off to hunt for Harry.  I checked the
DoM battle for DEs named after the one fell into the bell jar and
eliminated them -- Malfoy, Macnair, Bellatrix, Dolohov, and Rookwood.
 We also know it's not Nott, because he's the one who got injured in
the hall of prophecies.

Next I checked the pairings and eliminated a few more based on who
they were paired with:

I eliminated Mulciber because he was paired with Malfoy, and as Harry
heard both voices of the pair that included the baby-head DE, he would
have recognised if one of them were Malfoy.

I eliminated Jugson because he was paired with Dolohov (he of the
slashing purple flame spell), and Dolohov was part of the pair who
came in right *after* the DE fell into the bell jar.

I eliminated Rodolphus because he was paired with Bellatrix, and Harry
would have been sure to notice if she was paired with the DE who fell
into the bell jar -- he heard both DEs voices and saw both sets of feet.

That leaves Crabbe, Rabastan, and Avery as possibilities.

You'd *think* that if Vincent Crabbe's father had been baby-headed in
the DoM, rather than merely arrested, Harry would have heard about it
from him or Draco back at Hogwarts.  So, maybe Crabbe Sr. is unlikely?

The DE who fell into the bell jar was described as having a rough
voice, which doesn't seem to be like Avery's voice that Harry heard in
the graveyard.

So maybe it's Rabastan?

A tenuous conclusion at best!

By the way, I don't think the DE's head keeps transforming back and
forth.  I think once he'd pulled it out of the jar, and as it was in
baby form at the time, that it's just stuck that way.  I wonder if St
Mungo's even has any idea what to do with him, since that bell jar is
one of the *mysteries* of the DoM.  They might have to bring in
Croaker to sort it out!

Annemehr