Faithful servant debate/Total Death eaters

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 92945

-<psychobirdgirl at y...> wrote:
> I think maybe that the ones in the graveyard are referred to as the 
> inner circle, so while there may be more in Azkaban and some 
> unmentioned escapees, they would not have necessarily been in the 
> graveyard, which seemed invitaion only ,for the best of the worst to 
> see thier lord rise again to power, in which those invited could 
> share.
> 
> psychobirdgirl


When LV examines Wormtail's Dark Mark in the graveyard, which is now
vividly red, he says, "They will all have noticed it. . . . and now we
shall see. . . . now we shall know." Then he touches it, summoning the
Death Eaters. "How many will be brave enough to return when they feel
it? And how many will be foolish enough to stay away?" (GoF, Am. ed.
645). Assuming that every Death Eater has the Dark Mark, it looks to
me as if they have all been summoned. At any rate, if they have the
mark, they're not so much "invited" as commanded to obey the summons. 

To disobey it through cowardice (as Karkaroff did) was to deserve
punishment in Voldemort's view; to disobey it on principle (as Snape
did) was to deserve death. But I've already said more than enough on
that topic.

Carol, who wonders what's going to happen to Karkaroff (and, of
course, to Snape)