Goyle was not at MOM and is not in Azkaban

[Diana]

No: HPFGUIDX 104260

> Plinker:
> What is to become of the Potter-Malfoy feud? Now that the
> trio of Malfoy, Crabb and Goyle are in prison, how will
> there sons behave now that their famlies have lost their
> clout?
> 
> Samnanya
> Goyle was NOT at the MOM and therefore, unless he was
> arested in a separate undisclosed incident, is NOT at
> Azkaban.
> Also while I am at it, Luna was NOT on the Hogwarts train
> at the end of oop either.
> One of my pet theories of Book 6 is that before Harry's
> sixteenth birthday , Luna's dad will be killed by Goyle Sr.
> on orders from the dark lord for publishing the original
> Harry Potter interview with Rita Skeeter.
> It has been over 25000 posts and noone has ever posted a
> rebuttal of the above theory. Can anyone do so now ???

Diana L.
Luna is not in the same compartment as Harry, Hermione, Ron, Neville 
and Ginny, but that does not mean she's not on the train.  She could 
just be in a different compartment.  Since Luna is often described 
as in a dream world of her own, I could see Luna just finding a 
comfortable place to sit down and read her magazine and not caring 
if she was in a train car with Harry and the others.  There was no 
mention of her character at all for the previous four books, which 
would indicate that she sticks to herself mostly.  
*If* she's not on the train, her dad might have picked her up from 
school in order to start that vacation immediately so they can 
finish their trip before she goes back to school next year.  It 
obviously wasn't important to JKR to mention Luna as not being or 
definitely being on the train, which may indicate that Luna's 
importance to the story may have passed.  
It's possible Voldemort could want revenge against the publisher of 
the Quibbler because of Harry's interview, but what would be the 
point?  The Daily Prophet printed the same interview later, so would 
Voldemort then try to kill everyone who worked at the Daily Prophet 
as well?  I think Voldemort knew that he couldn't stay under the 
radar forever.  His return was bound to be discovered and *believed* 
eventually.  Besides, I think he'll blame the entire interview on, 
who else?, Harry himself for giving it in the first place.  

I could see Voldemort somehow running into Rita Skeeter, though, 
which would be the end of Rita Skeeter....

We don't know for sure that Goyle wasn't one of the DEs arrested at 
the MoM, because Harry didn't know the identity of all the DEs that 
were there.  He knew there was a DE named Goyle [and correctly 
concluded that this was Gregory Goyle's father] because he heard his 
name at the graveyard at the end of GoF.  But Goyle had a hood on 
then and Harry didn't see his face.  All the DE's in the MoM were 
wearing masks as well, though several of them removed their masks 
during the chase for the prophecy ball.
If Goyle wasn't arrested at the MoM, then he would still have to 
go 'on the lam', so to speak, to avoid being arrested, because Harry 
named him as a DE and the WW will believe Harry's story now because 
of Voldemort's personal appearance inside the MoM.  
Voldemort pretty much hates everyone, so he could be expected to go 
after anyone who even slightly pisses him off or gets in his way or 
just walks by him at the wrong time.  I can't see him singling 
anyone out in particular for his wraith, other than Harry and 
Dumbledore, when anyone will do including his own DEs and followers. 

Diana L.