The Mark, was Re: Snape: second chance?

[hogsheadbarmaid]

No: HPFGUIDX 115795


Annemehr:
> > <snip> Wouldn't they *all* have been looking for him, then, to 
> > treat him with the utmost TLC just to make sure they themselves
> > survived? After all, if LV would just have slowly faded away, 
> > then so would they.

Amandageist:
> <snip>  All I could think of was that maybe many of them were 
> actually relieved, or thought they got out easy <snip>
> 
> So maybe the majority of Death Eaters were "middle of the road" or 
> strong enough alone, hoped the bond had been broken by the totally 
> unforeseen effects of Harry on the Avada Kedavra spell, did know 
> Voldemort was semi-alive, and chose to ignore him and go back to 
> their lives (and their own agendas).


Barmaid:

I proposed something like this in post 115724.  I think most of the 
Death Eaters have some kind of hunger for power of their own.  If 
this bond is real, and they all somehow need each other to stay 
alive, it seems very plausible that when they do not suffer any real 
damage from LV's fall at GH they think that their power is their own 
and may feel, as you suggest, that they have lucked out and do not 
want to tempt fate by going to look for LV.