Baby-headed Death Eater

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91454

Carol wrote:
(I snipped your suggestion that it [the baby-headed Death Eater] was
Rabastan, but I don't think it was him because I think he followed
Bellatrix with Rodolphus. I'll have to go back and read your post when
it isn't 1:44 in the morning.
 
Annemehr:
Well, when Malfoy first paired them off and sent them after the
escaping kids, he paired Rabastan with Crabbe and sent them in the
opposite direction to Rodolphus and Bellatrix.  I don't think there's
any way at all of telling exactly who followed Ron, Ginny and Luna
into the brain room with Bellatrix -- if you saw something I missed,
let me know!

Oh!  I just checked something else!  Right after Harry and the kids
smashed prophecy orbs and ran from the DEs, Harry, Hermione and
Neville ran to the end of the row and turned RIGHT (p.787, Scholastic
-- the very last words on that page).  They arrive in the Time room
and Colloportus the door.  Harry hears Malfoy pairing off the DEs and
Malfoy tells Crabbe and Rabastan to go RIGHT also (p. 788)!  So I
really do believe the two DEs who almost immediately break into that
room are indeed Crabbe and Rabastan, one of whom is the Baby-Head DE!
<snip>


Carol:
If the baby-headed DE was Crabbe, it would make sense for Rabastan to
join up with his brother and sister-in-law--more sense than it would
make for Crabbe to join them if the Baby Head was Rabastan. In fact I
think Crabbe, not being overly bright, would have a hard time figuring
out what to do. (Duh, I wish Goyle was here!) Seriously, based on your
evidence, I'm thinking that the baby-headed DE was definitely Crabbe.
(I hope it was, in fact, because I want to find out more about
Rabastan. What's his part in the plot? I understand giving Bellatrix a
husband, but why give the husband a brother who joins him in Crucioing
the Longbottoms and is with him in Azkaban and the DoM--unlike Sirius
and Regulus, these brothers are a team--or a threesome with Bellatrix.
So even though Rabastan is presumably evil, I'm intrigued by him, and
I hope to find out more about him in Book 6.

And if Crabbe is the baby-headed DE, it will give young Crabbe, whose
first name I can't remember, a specific grudge against Harry that sets
him apart from Gregory Goyle. In fact, speaking of threesomes, I'm
still surprised that Draco and Crabbe, Jr., are still  friends with
Goyle,Jr., whose father wasn't in the DoM raid and wasn't arrested.
Maybe they're hoping Goyle, Sr., will help to rescue their fathers?
(Fat chance!) And I'm also wondering about Theodore Nott, whose father
was in the raid but injured and left behind on Lucius Malfoy's orders.
Will Theo be the longed for "good" Slytherin? See my earlier post!

Carol, who almost sent this post through with three signatures!