[the_old_crowd] Re: Death and magic

[Magda Grantwich]

> "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> wrote:
> 
> This feeds in nicely to my private theory that Death Eaters are
> so named because the share a magical bond with Voldemort that has 
> everything to do with why he did not die. I think they, as part of 
> their bond to him, lent him power and/or "took on" or "ate" part 
> of Voldemort's death for him, so he didn't have to do it.


Personally I think it has more to do with the comment "Eat death",
which was the popular snarky comeback in my teen years before it was
replaced with "Bite me".  

I don't think even the dumbest DE joined Voldemort because they
wanted to give something up to him or even to put themselves out for
him.  They're in it for what they can get: elimination of all that
muggle-tainted scum in the WW and afterwards the jobs, the wealth,
the positions, etc. that the muggle-tainted scum had possessed. 
Therefore staying on the good side of Mr. High-Maintenance-Dark-Lord
is a means to an end, and we saw that when he (apparently) was
vanquished they dispersed pretty rapidly.  

These guys aren't cultees, wandering around devasted at their loss
and hotly protesting their continued allegiance; they're
not-very-bright opportunists who lit out for deep cover immediately. 
Yes, I know Bellatrix did but personally I think she was already
crackers before she got to Azkaban (and might be the only living
thing the Dementors are afraid of).  

I also think that the Longbottom attack was set up by Lucius as a
kamikaze bid to remove Bellatrix from circulating in society and
messing up Lucius' standing as well as an attack against Crouch Sr.
to make sure he didn't become Minister of Magic with his
no-hold-barred vendetta against the DE's.  

There's no cosmic magical bond between Voldemort and his followers;
they're a gang of thugs being led by an intelligent psychopath
towards an end that will benefit only the leader, not the lead.  It's
a phenomena we're very familiar with from history.

Magda

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