Death Eaters

[severelysigune]

No: HPFGUIDX 120283


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:

 Sigune wrote:
> snip 
> > I have heard of this kind of practice before - it's why 
> headhunters -
> > er- headhunt. They kill in order to absorb their rivals' power 
> into 
> > themselves. It's not just a practice from the more unexplored 
> corners 
> > of the Southern hemisphere; the Celts reasoned similarly, even 
> > though, as far as I know, they didn't literally eat the brains - 
> they 
> > kept the skulls, or in Ireland (at least in the story of Cormac 
> > McArt) they prepared the brains and kept them stored somehow.
 
> Potioncat:
> You mean, like in a large tank in a special room?

Sigune:
Er... That occurred to me after I had just posted... But in fact, in 
the Cormac McArt tale, they roll the brains into hard balls like 
large bullets and occasionally smash someone's skull with them - so 
they are not really brains of the tentacly sort :-).

Still - I really want to find out more about why the Death Eaters are 
called Death Eaters, apart from the name sounding morbid. The death 
part certainly could have some relevance to Voldie's quest for 
immortality; but even if I have found myself a FEATHERBOA sometime 
ago, somehow I doubt that JKR is going to show us, say, Lucius Malfoy 
eating someone's brain. In any case I will be disappointed if we 
never hear anything more about the name.