How Many DEs Left? Was:Dark SHIPS ( was Re: Possession)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90885

Annemehr:
 
I have no quibbles with most of Mandy's post, but I'm sure that LV has
more than two DEs left after the MoM battle.  I did a post on it,
#85064, where I lay out all the reasoning, but the conclusion I drew
was that there are more than six at large.  How many more than six
there are depends on how many DEs Voldemort passed in silence in the
GoF graveyard without naming: 
"[Voldemort] walked on.  Some of the Death Eaters he passed in
silence, but he paused before others and spoke to them."  (GoF, ch. 33)
I figure it's a pretty safe bet there are at least ten DEs still at
large (and I agree with Draco that the others won't stay in Azkaban
for long).

Carol responds:
I would think that to except for a remark by Harry in OoP (I can't
remember where, but it might be in relation to the first DA meeting or
the Quibbler article) stating that the saw "about a dozen Death
Eaters" in the graveyard. He identifies six of these in GoF (Malfoy,
MacNair, Avery, Nott, Crabbe,and Goyle). Wormtail, of course, is also
present. The cowardly Karkaroff is absent, as is the ex-DE, Snape.
Three have died in LV's service (Rosier, Wilkes, and ???). That would
leave about five unnamed Death Eaters, if Harry's "dozen" is correct.
Ten more are in Azkaban at that time but escape later: The three
Lestranges, Rookwood, Antonin Dolohov, perhaps Jugson and Mulciber,and
three more who apparently are never named. Of the ten escapees, six
are back in prison. Bellatrix and the three unnamed DEs not present in
the DoM remain free. Of the six formerly free Death Eaters Harry
named, Malfoy, Avery, MacNair, Nott, and Crabbe are also in Azkaban.
Only Goyle remains free (unless he was at the DoM but wasn't named).
By my count, that leaves Bellatrix, Goyle, Wormtail, three Azkaban
escapees and about five unnamed DEs from the graveyard still at
large--a total of eleven.

Yet at one point in GoF (I think it's when Mad-Eye Moody shows Harry
the photograph of the original order), someone (Mad-Eye or Sirius?)
tells Harry that the old Order of about twenty people was outnumbered
twenty to one--meaning that there were originally about 400 Death
Eaters. Maybe this is a Flint, like the mismatched numbers of students
at Hogwarts in various scenes, but if not, where are all the Death
Eaters now? Three dead, two AWOL, eleven still with LV, and another in
Azkaban as of the end of OoP. That's twenty-seven of the original 400. 
Malke that 28 counting Regulus, murdered by his fellow DEs for wanting
out. What happened to all the others?

Carol, who apologizes for not having time to read Annemehr's earlier
post or look up the quotes