[HPforGrownups] Re: Death Eaters

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 81318

Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Death Eaters


> > > In GoF, Voldemort counts his Deatheaters:
> > > "And here we have six missing Death Eaters...three dead in my
> > > service. One, too cowardly to return...he willpay. One, who I
> > >  believe has left me forever...he will be killed, of course.
> > > And one, who remains my most faithful servant, and
> > > who has already reentered my service."
> > > p.651
> > >
>
> See http://www.hp-lexicon.org/death_eaters.html
> three dead :
> - Rosier (GoF 27 + 30)
> - Wilkes (GoF 27)
> - Regulus Black (OotP 6)

I'm not sure that he'd count Regulus Black as "dead in my (Voldemort's)
service."  He was trying to get out and got killed for it, which I don't
think V'mort would consider an honorable death for the DE cause.  I don't
think he mentioned Regulus Black at all.  He may have been one of the gaps
that the Big V-man just didn't mention---without being actually physically
present at the graveyard and seeing, it's very hard to tell just what was
going on.  I think that the "six missing Death Eaters" was just the biggest
gap in the circle.

>
> Cowardly or Left Forever
> - Snape **
> - Karakoff
> Faithful Servant
> - Barty Couch Jr
>
> ** Voldemort had already seen Snape while possessing Quirrel, but
> never revealed himself to the Potions Prof. Why should he if LV
> wasn't sure where Snape stood? Snape had to have brought some very
> valuable information to LV on his return or he wouldn't be alive now.

He could also have pointed out, with perfect truth, that Quirrell had never
levelled with him about having V'mort in/on his head.  "How was I to know
you were there, my lord?  If I had known...but Quirrell never mentioned
being in your service, and I had no way of checking him to see!  _I_ thought
I was protecting the Stone until you could come to get it, or I could get it
for you!"  Snape was not there during the big confrontation between Harry
and Quirrell, after all.


> That is one reason why I think Snape has stayed loyal to LV by
> keeping close to LV's main enemy, Dumbledore. He has convinced LV and
> the DE that he has always been loyal.

Which may well be one reason, as has been pointed out, why he indulges Draco
Malfoy so much.  "Let the little twerp report back to Daddy that I pet him
and indulge him...Malfoy Senior will think I'm still on his side!"