DE in the DoM

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 105461

I think I have finally reached a conclusion about one thing in one of the books!

Harry, Hermione, and Neville (HHN) are in the time room.

Nott is injured, either by Hermione's spell or by shelves and orbs falling on him.  Whatever it is it seems non-repairable at the moment (no 'Enervate' or anything as simple as that).

Next we hear Lucius Malfoy barking orders:
Bella & Rudy go left
Crabbe & Rabastan go right
Jugson and Dolohov - straight ahead (not the time-room, they don't go in there, at least not right away)
Macnair & Avery - through here (possibly the time-room)
Mulciber come with me (LM)
Rookwood - over there

Now, presuming the DE's all stay with who they are told to go with:

Two DE's come into the time room.  It cannot be Bella & Rudy, as Harry would know Bella.  It cannot be Malfoy & Mulciber as Harry knows Malfoy. Rookwood is alone, so I presume it is not him.  One is hit with a spell and crashes into a grandfather clock, the spell or crash stopping him for the moment at least.  The other DE is hit with a spell and goes through the bell jar. 

HHN go into an office, probably off the time-room, where two more DE's enter.  Neville is kicked in the face, Hermione is attacked and we know Dolohov did that, so I would think Jugson would be the DE with him.  Both are caught in a Body-bind but we know that doesn't last long (and may not last very long at all on more powerful wizards particularly when the spell is cast by students no matter how powerful).

HHN are joined, in the round room with 12 doors, by Ron, Luna and Ginny.  3 DE's enter lead by Bella.  So I presume one of the other two is Rudy.  The other could be Rookwood or whichever DE was left in the time room.

The DA members got to the brain room, colloportussed all the doors but the one 5 DE's entered, again lead by Bella.  So it would be Bella, Rudy, and three un-named but it makes sense to me that it would be Dolohov and Jugson catching up from the 'office' after being petrified.  That part doesn't really matter.  (It is amazing, though, how well those DE's get around this place when it seems such a mystery when anyone else talks about it.)

Harry runs to the Death Chamber, followed by the same 5 DE's who were in the brain room and the other 5 appear as well.  The DE's we *know* are in the Death Chamber are: Malfoy, Dolohov, Bella, Macnair, and Rookwood.  We know Bella excapes with LV and Nott is injured as well as whoever went through the bell jar.

Harry had heard Macnair's voice in PoA although only a few words, perhaps not enough to recognize it in another, panic filled moment.  We know Macnair is around later in the Death Chamber, anyway so he couldn't have gone through the bell jar.  Harry should recognize Crabbe's voice from the graveyard in GoF although he would never have seen his face due to a mask. However, Crabbe, Jr is still at Hogwarts at the end of the summer term.  Would he have not been at home by then, visiting his father in St Mungo's if it had been Crabbe, Sr who went though the bell jar? That leaves Avery (who Harry dreamed about but never saw) and Rabastan Lestrange (who HHN would all have seen pictures of in the Daily Prophet and in Hogsmeade but none of them appear to recognize the baby DE in the bell jar.  Makes me think it was Avery.

However, sorry this is so long.  My main point is not who went through the bell jar, but I am now firmly convinced the remaining 9 DE's are in Azkaban.  For however long, now the Dementors have revolted, I don't know.

Cathy - pick it apart as you will but be gentle, my brain hasn't worked this hard in years!

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