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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91034

LizVega wrote:
Perhaps the reference to being outnumbered was to illustrate 
just how many people were under his control at that time. That 
could mean that the 400 or so followers were DE's, people like 
Wormtail who working as Double Agents, people under the imperious 
curse, dark creatures like dementors and giants, etc. I just can't 
see there being 400 DE's- and only seeing a fraction of that number 
in the graveyard in GOF.
 

James wrote:
Well The Aurors were Authorized to use Unforgiveable curses so it 
wouldn't be totally out of the realm of possibility that many of them 
could have been victims to the Avada Kedavra. But yeah..400 is quite 
a large number.

Carol (responding to both):
The passage stating that the Order was outnumbered twenty to one by
Death Eaters (OoP 177 or 161, depending on your edition) has already
been quoted, so I won't reapeat it here, but it does refer to DEs, not
LV's followers in general. And LV states specifically that *three* DEs
are "dead in [his] service" (GoF, graveyard scene, page number not
handy). Of course, he may have been referring to just one specific gap
in the circle. But even so, there were no more than thirty DEs present
(I'm sure that Harry says "about a dozen," though I still haven't
found that passage). By my count, 362 DEs are unaccounted for, and I
doubt that anywhere near that many were AK'd by Aurors. Moody, one of
the best Aurors, brought them in alive when he could. I can recall
only one who died fighting him (Evan Rosier, who took a piece of Mad
Eye's nose along with him), and he's probably one of the three LV is
referring to, another being Wilkes.

So, assuming that 400 is not a Flint, where could all those unnamed
others be? Killed off by their fellow DEs as Regulus Black was? I
doubt that more than a dozen could be accounted for in that way. Maybe
there's a group of non-British Death Eaters somewhere other than
England? With the exception of Dolohov and Karkaroff, all of our known
DEs identified so far appear to be English. IIRC, even the Lestrange
brothers attended Hogwarts.

Carol