Voldie's remaining DEs (Was: LV's bigger plan)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 166405

Carol earlier:
> <snip> However, I'm wondering--just who does Voldemort have left,
with Lucius, Dolohov, Mulciber, Rookwood, et al. in Azkaban and
Bellatrix being excluded from his plans as punishment for her failure
to retrieve the Prophecy? *Are* there any first-string DEs? I'm sure
he had good reason for not sending Wormtail, who probably fits into
his later plans for invading Hogwarts. But who else is left? Goyle,
who was evidently too stupid to send on the MoM mission? <snip>
> 
Magpie responded:
> I actually do agree with this--I wasn't so sure these DEs were 
supposed to be second string or just the DEs that happened to show up
so we're not always seeing the same ones. Goyle was sent to the MoM,
wasn't he? He doesn't seem too great either! But if people do think
they're second string, that doesn't seem like a problem either.

Carol:
Nope. Goyle isn't among the DEs that Lucius pairs off in "The
Department of Mysteries" (OoP chapter 34) after Nott is injured and
abandoned--Bellatrix and Rodolphus, Rabastan and Crabbe, Jugson and
Dolohov, Macnair and Avery, Rookwood by himself, Mulciber with Lucius
(Am. ed. 788). No Goyle anywhere. It's not clear what happened to the
injured Nott--I assume he was found, sent to St. Mungo's and then
transferred to Azkaban--or to the baby-headed Death Eater, who as I
figure it is probably Crabbe. (He can't be Rodolphus, Jugson, Dolohov,
Rookwood, Mulciber, Avery, Macnair, or Lucius, all of whom are
otherwise accounted for and/or recognizable to Harry. He could be
Rabastan, but I think that Rabastan joins Bellatrix and Rodolphus as
the third DE in that group after Crabbe's accident.)

Anyway, just thought I'd indicate my source of information regarding
the absence of Goyle at the MoM--Lucius himself. (It could be a Flint,
but I don't think JKR would just forget Goyle Sr., and if he'd been
present, surely he'd have been paired off with Crabbe Sr. as usual.)

Carol, who's probably the only person one of the few people who cares
which DE is the baby-head or what happened to poor old Nott or what's
going on with his son Theo now . . . .