Friendly and cheerful DE WAS: Re: The Twins/Umbridge a DE?

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No: HPFGUIDX 145067

> >>va32h:
> > > this theme would be played out better if JKR showed us a      
> > > friendly and cheerful Death Eater for comparison.

> >>Eggplant: 
> > > I disagree. All Death Eaters are evil, but not all evil people 
> > > are Death Eaters.

> >>Magpie:
> > I think va32h's point is that one can be friendly and cheerful   
> > and also evil.

> >>Alla:
> Well, yes, that is how I also read Va32h point - BUT I think that 
> it is VERY interesting that so far we had NOT seen friendly and   
> cheerful DE in the series and I mean as in "real friendly"
> I interpret it as JKR treating "being nice to other people" as    
> virtue and not assigning it to Death Eaters. Simplistic - maybe,   
> but quite telling to me. 

Betsy Hp:
What about Barty?  Fake!Moody that is.  He wasn't all that cheerful, 
(unless he was physically abusing the children of people he 
disliked) but he was friendly.  In fact, I think Harry would have 
described him as quite a good friend up until the end of GoF.  At 
the very least Fake!Moody was nice to Harry.

Betsy Hp