The Mark, was Re: Snape: second chance?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 116179


> Barmaid wrote:
> 
> <snip> 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.

Carol notes:
For what it's worth, there are already at least three Death Eaters who
were killed after Voldemort was vaporized ("dead in my service," LV
says of them in the graveyard scene in GoF): Evan Rosier (killed by
Alastor Moody), Wilkes, and one other whose name has not been
revealed. (The DEs may think it's Barty Jr., whom they believe to have
died in Azkaban, though how that could be death in Voldemort's service
is not quite clear.) And Barty Jr., the "loyal servant at Hogwarts" by
my reading, is now worse than dead. And I almost forgot Regulus Black,
murdered by his fellow DEs.

These deaths seem to suggest that they do not "need each other to stay
alive." And Lucius Malfoy's "Leave Nott! Leave him, I say!" certainly
reveals a cold indifference to a fellow DE's fate.

I do agree that the DEs who escaped Azkaban feel that they have
"lucked out" and would be quite content if LV never came back, but
this feeling need not depend on their needing each other to remain
alive. I think it's more the perverted ethic of "every DE for himself"
(Bellatrix and her fellow fanatics excepted). 

Carol