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

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 91070

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


Call me simplistic, but I think it's just as it is with the Hogwarts 
students.  We are familiar now with, what?, 50, 60, 70 student 
names?  Yet we know JKR said there are HUNDREDS of students there.  
Likewise, we are familiar with a couple of dozen Death Eater names, 
and similarly, there may be many times that number we've just not 
heard about.  

I mean, where in the books would it make sense for JKR to have given 
us a listing of DEs?  Just as we don't get a full Hogwarts roster for 
each year, we don't get a roster of DEs.  I think that's partly 
because it's more character names than we need or could handle and 
partly because JKR wants to keep some secrets.

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