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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91031

Jim Ferer wrote:
> <snip> And that brings me, at least, to the untold stories of the
graveyard 
> scene.  How could that be all the surviving DE's? Could it be the 
> cadre of DE's, Voldemort's staff? It doesn't say so in the text, but 
> it's hard to make sense out of it otherwise.  I have a hard time 
> imagining Lucius Malfoy standing in the same circle as an evil 
> version of Stan Shunpike.  If anything gives that "elite" idea any 
> credence, it's the MoM scene at the end of OotP; there's more DE's 
> around than seem possible even considering the gaps in the circle at 
> the graveyard.
> 
> 
I agree that the Des in the graveyard scene can't possibly be all of
them if there were anywhere near the 400 Lupin estimates were picking
off the original members one by one. A lot (well, about seven) of the
DEs in the MoM raid weren't in the graveyard scene; they were in
Azkaban. That includes the three Lestranges, Antonin Dolohov,
Rookwood, Mulciber, and possibly Jugson, who's mentioned for the first
time in that scene. But still, as I said in another post, I can only
account for about 28, including three dead ones, Karkaroff, and our
favorite ex-DE, Snape. But I'm still coming up about 372 short.

Carol