Etymology of "Death Eater" (was Re: With enemies like these.....)

[John]

No: HPFGUIDX 117335


> Carol responds:
> <snip> The idea of Death Eaters eating bottled death strikes me as 
> some sort of evil parody of the communion service in which Catholics,
> Episcopalians, and various other Christian denominations (Lutherans?)
> symbolically eat the body and blood of Christ to share in his
> resurrection. Are the DEs eating Voldemort's death or their own?


 Hi Carol
In RC the belief is in transubstanation, the wafer is the actual body and the wine the actual blood, after the priest has performed the ritual.

Johnnie