Who is the Fourth DE?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 153590

> Ginny mentions the Death Eater that died, was "the big blond one" 
Wasn't this the same one being chased from the tower?
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>   And, no, this Death Eater wasn't named either.
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>   -FT
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Carol responds:
The dead DE is Gibbon, who is killed (accidentally) by the big blond
DE. They are not the same person. 

The big blond DE (possibly Crabbe, who was not present at the MoM and
must still be at large at the end of HBP) is also different from the
"brutal-faced Death Eater," the fourth DE that Tonks was referring to
upthread, who is apparently petrified by Harry as they start down the
stairs from the tower. That person, oddly referred to by Scrimgeour as
having been "Stupefied," is apparently in custody after the events on
the tower.

IMO, the brutal-faced Death Eater is Yaxley, mentioned by Snape along
with Avery, Lucius (Malfoy), and "the Carrows" (whom I take to be
Amycus and Alecto) in "Spinner's End" (HBP Am. ed. 27). Fenrir
Greyback is also mentioned for the first time in that speech. Why give
these names if the characters aren't going to appear in the book?

Carol, noting that the name Yaxley also appears on the Black Family
Tree, which suggests that the Yaxleys are purebloods