Plot in OotP

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 118245


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ginnysthe1" <ginnysthe1 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> 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).  
> 

Hickengruendler:

There is a very excellent essay about this on the HP-Lexicon, where 
the Baby Head Death Eater is narrowed down to three possibilities, 
and Avery was one of them. But it probably wasn't MacNair, since 
MacNair appeared later in the battle again. Neville stabbed 
Hermione's wand in his eyes, when he nearly killed Harry. Of course 
it is possible that the other Death Eaters found him and were able to 
redo the damage. But I somehow doubt it, later there were only 10 of 
12 Death Eaters in the Death room. One of them missing was Nott, and 
the other probably the Babyhead.