How much do the DE kids know? (was Crabbe as potential job applicant)

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 116702


> > Dungrollin previously:
> > This has got me thinking about how much the DE kids at Hogwarts 
> > are told by their parents.  Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle and Nott were 
> > all at the graveyard, all mentioned by name by Voldy, all in the 
> > inner circle, and all have kids at Hogwarts in Harry's year.  
> > Did they tell their kids all about it? 
> >  
> > Could some of Draco's anger at the end of OotP be that Daddy 
> > being chucked in the slammer was the first time he actually 
> > knew for *sure* that LV was back?
> 
> 
> Juli:
> I'm pretty sure Lucius told Draco LV was back. In the train back 
> to London at the end of GoF Malfoy says something like this "Now 
> that the Dark Lord is back the Mudbloods will be the first to die, 
> or the second since Diggory was the first" then Fred, George, Ron, 
> Harry all cast spells on them (Malfoy, Goyle and Crabbe).
> 
> I don't know for sure how much the kids are told but they seem to 
> know the headlines. If I were Lucius I wouldn't tell Draco too 
> much since he gloats in front of Harry quite frequently and I 
> don't think it's in the DE interest if Harry knows what they are 
> doing.
> 
> Just a thought.

Dungrollin again:
But Draco wouldn't have seen his father between the graveyard 
debacle and being on the train at the end of GoF, he was at Hogwarts 
the whole time.  And given the whispering that starts between 
Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle at the end of year feast when DD says that 
Cedric was killed by Voldemort, I'd say it's a fair bet that Lucius 
didn't owl Draco the morning after the last task with 'Guess what I 
did last night... Go on!  You'll *never* guess...'

On the train, the only information we're sure that Malfoy Crabbe and 
Goyle have is from DD.  I just wonder how much their fathers filled 
them in on the truth when they got home for the summer.

It's just that, if Draco were sure that LV was back, wouldn't he be 
taunting Harry about it as much as possible?  Either Draco and co. 
learned a lot of self-restraint (and Draco earned his father's 
confidence in a way that he hadn't before CoS), and kept *very* 
quiet about what they knew throughout their fifth year, or Lucius 
wasn't telling.

Oh - while I'm at it, another thing... Assuming DoubleAgent!Snape - 
couldn't a snide comment (which I'm sure Draco wouldn't be able to 
resist) to someone about 'that idiot Potter having *remedial 
potions* alone with Snape in the evenings' cause a bit of concern in 
certain circles?

Dungrollin
- who is sick and tired of a certain statistical program crashing 
just before she saves.