An Analysis of the Skirmish at Hogwarts with some Potentially Surprises

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 168093

> Goddlefrood presents what's in the title ;-):
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> <snippity snip snip snip>
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> Who then could be fighting Remus and Ron? There should be 
> two more, who are they? I believe I am right in concluding 
> then, that there were two more DEs present other than those 
> named or described. If correct the total number of crew with 
> Draco would be a total of 7, not coincidentally LV's least 
> favourite number ;) (Alecto, Amycus, Greyback, brutal face, 
> big blond and these two others).

Mike:

8, you forgot to count Gibbon, the dead DE.

Note also, out on the lawn Harry only sees Alecto & Amycus & Blondie 
flee with Draco and Snape. We have dead Gibbon and captured brutal-
face (Yaxley?). I tend to think that Greyback was captured, and if he 
wasn't he should have been. After all he got hit after Yaxley so he 
should have been down longer and he wasn't off away from the rest on 
the tower like Yaxley was.

What happened to these other 2 unnamed but certainly there DEs? After 
Alecto, Amycus and Blondie take off and with Yaxley, Greyback and 
Gibbon down, that left these other 2 against Ron, Ginny, Remus, Tonks 
and Minerva (Neville and Bill being down). You would think these 5 
could have subdued and captured these remaining 2 DEs. If that did 
indeed happen then LV lost 4 DEs and possibly Greyback to capture or 
death.

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For my own perspective, I don't think Greyback was a wizard and 
therefore not formally a DE. He falls into the category of LV's 
allies, as LV expounded upon in the Graveyard scene. It has been 
noted that he doesn't have a wand, and his 'wizard' robes are noted 
as ill-fitting, as if they aren't his in the first place.

To further tie this into the Nitwit?Lupin thread, wizards seem to 
understand the dangers present from werewolves on full moon nights. 
They would of necessity take precautions, seeing as how the 
werewolves aren't captured or otherwise restrained. But Muggles don't 
have this same degree of knowledge, although there must be some 
rumors by now in the Potterverse. 

So werewolf attacks are much more likely to occur against Muggles 
than against wizards. The exception being werewolves like Greyback 
who purposely targets young wizards in his vendetta against the WW. 
For this reason, I speculate that the majority of werewolves are 
formerly Muggles with no inherent magical abilities. And I include 
Greyback in those that were formerly Muggles.

Mike