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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90903

> bboy_mn:
> In 'Goblet of Fire', Chapter 34 - 'Prior Incantatem'; Am Ed HB pg 660,
> Harry "...was surrounded by Death Eaters, outnumbered by at least
> THIRTY to one".
> 
Carol:
But as I noted in another post, Harry reduces that number to a dozen
in OoP. I can't find the quote, but maybe someone else can help me.
OoP's a long book!


> I think at best we could probably name a dozen DE's, so there are
> substantially more than we have been formally introduced to. 

Carol:
I named about 23 in a previous post, counting two dead, one fled, and
one "who will not return." Another one, Travers (who killed the
McKinnons) is mentioned in "The Pensieve" in GoF. I'm guessing that
he's one of the Azkaban escapees (absent from the graveyard scene, of
course, but also absent from the DoM raid, so he's one of those who's
still at large, along with Bellatrix, Goyle, Wormtail, and about eight
others, by my calculation).

b-boy:
I think of the dozen or so we know of, a substantial portion were only
introduce as DE's in OoP, of those, a few like McNair had been
introduced as characters, but not as confirmed DE's.

Carol:
We do know that MacNair is a Death Eater. He's at the graveyard, he's
sent as an envoy to the giants by LV, and he's in the DoM raid with
Malfoy and the Azkaban escapees. (Also Avery, who wasn't in Azkaban
but is now.)

For anyone who's interested, I found the reference that identifies
Rabastan and Rodolphus Lestrange as the two men Harry sees in the
Pensieve along with Bellatrix and Barty Crouch, Jr. It's in OoP, Am.
ed., 114. I'm still looking for the one about the Order members being
outnumbered twenty to one by DEs. If anyone finds it, please post.

Carol, who has a completely unrelated question: What the heck does
Tonks mean by "Wotcher"?