The known DEs (Was:Digest Number 5583)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 120741


DuffyPoo wrote:
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> I think Malfoy is like Bella and was well-known within the group. 
LV also mentioned, by name, Avery, Macnair, Crabbe, Goyle, Nott and
all those present in the graveyard saw Pettigrew.  From OotP we know
that Malfoy is known to all three of the Lestranges, Crabbe and Goyle
we already knew were 'friends', Jugson, Dolohov, Macnair, Avery,
Mulciber and Rookwood.  I think Malfoy is one of LV's right-hand
men....but I also think Malfoy has plans of his own. :)  JMO.

Carol adds:
It may or may not be relevant, but as Fudge indicates, the people
identified by LV as present in the graveyard are the same men whose
names had been publicized when they were accused of being Death Eaters
and then cleared of the charges. LV doesn't hesitate to identify them
in front of the other DEs because they're already known. But he
*doesn't* name Snape, Karkaroff, or Barty Crouch Jr., which may mean
that some of those present in the circle didn't know that those three
had been DEs. And Wormtail is referred to only by his nickname, not by
his real name, which probably indicates that most of them don't equate
him with the "dead" Peter Pettigrew. It's possible, however, that PP
wasn't a DE at all during VW1, only a spy.

You're right that the other people named later on, the escapees from
Azkaban, were all friends of Lucius Malfoy to begin with, members of
the Slytherin gang that he probably led during his years at Hogwarts.
But also, the Azkaban escapees all knew each other and their names
were also public property, having been published in the Daily Prophet
at the time of their arrests, their trials, and their joint escape. So
the people whose names we don't know, those who are passed by in
silence in the graveyard, are probably those whose identity can still
be kept secret. They've neither been charged nor arrested, and even
the other DEs evidently don't know who they are, just as they didn't
know who Wormtail was--and, with the exception of Lucius Malfoy and
Bellatrix, possibly still don't.

Carol, trying to remember whether Wormtail had his mask on in the
graveyard scene and wondering if any of the DEs in the graveyard were
of the right age to recognize him as the "dead" Pettigrew