Plot in OotP

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No: HPFGUIDX 118234


Geoff wrote (about the DE that "purple-slashed" Hermione):
>He can be identified quite clearly from canon as Antonin Dolohov...<

Then Potioncat added:
>And wasn't baby-head narrowed down to two possible names? (Crabbe as 
one possible name?)<

Now Kim:
I think baby-head was either Avery or Macnair (see text below).  
Since they were the two who were told by Lucius to go through the 
door that Harry, Hermione, and Neville were hiding behind (I think).  
But I'm not sure which of the two got baby-headed.  Of course 
Potioncat might be right that baby-head was Crabbe...

Anyhow, here's the part where Lucius gives the orders -- see what you 
think:
 
"Footsteps and shouts echoed from behind the door they [i.e. H, H, 
and N] had just sealed; Harry put his ear close to the door to listen 
and heard Lucius Malfoy roar, 'Leave Nott, leave him, I say - his 
injuries will be nothing to the Dark Lord compared to losing that 
prophecy. Jugson, come back here, we need to organise! We'll split 
into pairs and search, and don't forget, be gentle with Potter until 
we've got the prophecy, you can kill the others if necessary -
Bellatrix, Rodolphus, you take the left; Crabbe, Rabastan, go right -
Jugson, Dolohov, the door straight ahead - Macnair and Avery, through 
here - Rookwood, over there - Mulciber, come with me!'  

The "door straight ahead" couldn't have been the H/H/N door because 
Dolohov wasn't one of the two DEs they fought with in that room (I 
don't think so, anyway), and "through here" seems to indicate the 
door they (Lucius and the DEs) were standing right in front of.  But 
I could be wrong.  JKR aims to confuse!

And thanks, Geoff, for ID-ing Dolohov as the purple-slasher.

Baby-Head and the Purple-Slasher -- great comic book (or WWF) names!

Kim