Number of DEs in Graveyard (was Re: Voldemort's recruitment . ..)

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 128942

a_svirn:
>>So who were those whom he passed in silence? We don't know and it is
not out of the range of possibility that they were the
missing "older" wizards. Moreover it would make sense for LV who is
nothing after all, if not practical to put at risk those DE who had
already been compromised. Remember Fudge reaction to Hurry's
revelations in the hospital wing? He said:

"You are merely repeating the names of those who were acquitted of
being Death Eaters thirteen years ago!" said Fudge angrily. "You
could have found those names in old reports of the trials! "<<

Rebecca:
That's been mentioned before as a possibility (that he didn't mention 
the "secret" DEs in case Harry somehow got away). In fact, I think 
there was a theory once that the *whole thing* was a farce and he 
intended for Harry to get away, or at least the Harry getting away 
thing was some sort of backup plan, which is why the trophy brought 
him back to Hogwarts (ack, I really don't remember the better details 
of this theory, nor when I read it, does anyone else recall it?).

The whole graveyard scene is rather tricky. Its extremely curious 
that we didn't get any names that weren't mentioned earlier, or 
rather easy to guess (other than Nott, I guess, but we don't know who 
he is other than he has a son at Hogwarts). It might be that so many 
names were dropped earlier in GoF, that JKR didn't feel it necessary 
to name any more, but I doubt it. 

But this still, IMO, doesn't solve the riddle of the "older death 
eaters". The older ones would be the ones Voldemort has known the 
longest, and therefore would be more personally connected to. So why 
wouldn't he speak to them? He bothers to speak to Crabbe and Goyle 
after all, and they can't possibly be very important. I think the 
only theory that really works here is the coup d'êta one, since it 
makes the most sense that the older DEs are dead and have been dead 
for some time. 


-Rebecca