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

[dorapye]

No: HPFGUIDX 90934

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
dorapye:

Hi Carol. The quote you want is in "The Woes of Mrs Weasley", UK Ed 
p161, when Lupin is comforting Molly after her humiliating Boggart 
terror.  She confides that she thinks it'll be a miracle if all the 
Weasleys come out of this second war unscathed and Lupin says:

..."Oh Molly, come on, it's about time you got used to hearing his 
name - look I can't promise no one's going to het hurt, nobody can 
promise that, but we're much better off than we were last time.  You 
weren't in the Order then, you don't understand.  Last time we were 
out-numbered twenty to one by the Death Eaters and they were picking 
us off one by one..."

I must admit, this statement never bothered me before, but now 
people are asking questions about how many DEs there are and how 
many turned up to the graveyard, I'm struggling with it too.  Maybe 
Lupin meant "DEs and people controlled by DEs"?

dorapye (Helen)