what are the criteria for becoming a Death Eater??? and is harry really a half-blood?

[suehpfan]

No: HPFGUIDX 92950

Snip of Kashelker's (sp?) post
> Mandy here:
> We don't actually know what spells were thrown by the DE at the 
Order 
> members during their individual duels in the battle.  I have 
assumed 
> Dark Spells were uses and members of the Order, and the Aurors, 
(like 
> Tonks who was too young to be in the Order the first time around) 
are 
> trained in the defense of them.  
> 
> It still doesn't answer the question of why the DE didn't use Dark 
> Spells against the Kids, though and I was disappointed in how 
easily 
> the kids were able to fight, and win against the DE in OotP.  It 
> doesn't make the DE appear to be much of a force to be reckoned 
with 
> at all.  My only fault with JKR's writing is the bad guys are 
often, 
> when it comes down to actually fighting and killing, weak and 
easily 
> defeated by 15 year olds.
> 
> The are many posts on Harry's half blood status on this site if you 
> search back through the archives.
> 
> Cheers Mandy

A couple of comments about the DE's at the MoM.  What ever Dolohov 
used on Hermione and tried to use on the others, on more than one 
occasion, was clearly something we have never seen before.  It 
did "quite enough damage to be going on with" and probably would have 
caused Hermione's death had he been able to speak it aloud. It was 
most probably "dark magic".

 What the DE's wanted was the prophecy.  For most of the running 
around in the MoM, no one could be absolutely sure who was carrying 
it.  If they killed the kid who had it in their hand (or used Crucio) 
they could have caused the prophecy to be broken.

As far as the kids ability to fight the DE's I think it became 
obvious they were no match for them.  If the DEs had not been 
interrupted by the Order and had succeeded in getting the prophecy 
(which they were literally seconds from doing), I imagine that the 
kid's bodies would never have been found.  The DoM would have been 
reinstated to its original pristine condition and all of the broken 
orbs replaced by fake ones.  That is not how it ended though.  The 
kids fought with whatever means they had, and they were losing.  RW 
children in a similar situation would do the same thing, use the 
means they had and probably die in the end anyway.

Hurray! Here comes the cavalry!
Sue