Death Eaters

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No: HPFGUIDX 120320


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" <delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> 
> Potioncat wrote:
> "You mean, like in a large tank in a special room?"
> 
> Del replies:
> I'm not the only one, huh?
> 
> That does put a nice twist on the purpose of the Brain Room. Could it
> be, for example, that the MoM tries to collect the brains of all the
> powerful witches and wizards who die, so that the Death Eaters can't
> get to them? Though I guess if that was the case, the DEs would have
> taken the opportunity to raid that tank, when they invaded the DoM.
> 
> Still, I find it a nice little coincidence...
> 

There's this disease... called Kuru, still occasionally found in the New 
Guinea highlands, I believe. Severe neurological disorders, emotional
lability, death in about a year. Transmitted during cannabalistic rites
.... only found in males and it's only the males that eat the brains.
Probably a prion-like agent as in CJD. 

Is it wishful thinking, or is Voldy showing symptoms?

Dunno if anyone else has mentioned it in the thread but they  weren't
originally called Death Eaters; they were called the Knights of Walpurgis
(Paxman interview last year) and there's an awful lot of backstory on
them. Whether we're going to see it is iffy by all accounts.

Names seem to have significance to our author, but I'm damned if
I can tease anything worthwhile out of either of these -  DE can't be 
tied to anything specific and Walpurgis Night is a big holiday in
Nordic countries (30th April). Sure, there's some old folklore about
witches meeting in Sabbats on that night, but it's pretty run of the
mill stuff.

If there's that much backstory then I'd bet the name does tie in 
somehow - initiation rites maybe? Linked to the Dark Mark?
Let's face it, we're guessing.

Kneasy