Slythie followers of LV

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 187158

"Barbara" <miamibarb at ... quoted me as follows:
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> > 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'.

"Barbara" <miamibarb at ...> responded:
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> 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 again:

Just for the record, only the first quoted paragraph is mine. The second is Catlady's response to my post. As you've quoted me, it looks as if I'm contradicting myself!

I pretty much agree with you (most actual DEs other than Wormtail appear to have been in Slytherin). Fenrir Greyback, of course, wasn't in any House (and wasn't in the inner circle, FWIW), but the Snatchers also create the impression that they were in Slytherin. (I'm ignoring Harry's unaccountable reference to skulls in the Slytherin common room here.)

Carol, wondering which House Stan Shunpike was in, assuming that he attended Hogwarts for at least a few years