[HPforGrownups] Will the DEs die if Voldy does? (was: Harry's character development)

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 139241

KJ writes:
> If, as I suspect, the Dark Mark will kill the DEs on Voldemort's 
> true death (can you see him allowing them to survive if he does 
> not?) Snape must in turn make the choice to die rather than allow 
> Voldemort to survive.... 


SSSusan intriuged:
I am pulling out this tiny snippet of the post because it intrigues 
me. I'm curious what others think about this issue. HAS Voldy set 
things up such that (via the Dark Mark for instance), upon his death, 
all the DEs will die, too? It certainly sounds like the *kind* of 
thing Voldy might go for.
... 
Are you thinking that Voldy has set up this death connection... but 
that the DEs aren't aware of it?

 Kemper now:
I can easily see Voldy being deceiptful with his DEs. But I don't think 
Voldy has the capacity to think that he will fail. He's been fighting 
against the idea of his mortality for sometime even before he placed the 
first Dark Mark on the first DE (by the by, who do you supose that person 
was?). For Voldy to place some Voldy-destroyed Destruct button on the Dark 
Mark, would mean that Voldy admits, even to himself, the possibility that he 
will/can fail. 
 I don't see Voldy sabataging his own sense of Superiority.


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