Slythie followers of LV

[Barbara]

No: HPFGUIDX 187157

While the majority of LV's inner circle (Death Eaters) are associated with Slytherin, many (like Luna's father) are coerced into doing evil things, making them untrustworthy, but hardly followers. 

> Carol wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/187083>:
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> << many people must have noticed that, with the presumed exception of Sirius Black, most of LV's followers, including those who claimed that they'd been Imperio'd, came from Slytherin. >>
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> Surely many of LV's followers, whether or not they claimed Imperio, were from other Houses. Because canon tells us that in those bad days, the first Voldemort Reign of Terror, no one knew whom to trust. So they couldn't use a guideline like 'People who were in Hufflepuff or Gryffindor are trustworthy'.
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