Eating Death: a ritual? (Was: Etymology of "Death Eater" )

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 117357


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "John" <mablake at p...> wrote:
> 
> > 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

Carol:
As an ex-Episcopalian, I forgot about that important liturgical
difference. (JKR would be Anglican, wouldn't she?) Not sure how it
relates to the Death Eaters, but I would guess that they'd eat death
in some way that was both literal *and* symbolic, and the evil parody
idea still holds, though I'm speculating, of course. What do you think?

Carol