How about this: What do you think about people being possible Death Eaters? We didn't find out that Peter Pettigrew was a Death Eater until the end of book three, so is there a possibility that there are Death Eaters that are well known characters? Such as Percy Weasley, he's ambitious and doesn't really care about doing the right thing, so could he already be, or become a Death Eater in the last book? What other characters do you think could turn out to be Death Eaters? Who do you think would betray the Light Side or Harry Potter?


Sis: Even though the series has ended, it's still possible to speculate who's on which side since not all characters were covered in the last book. Ludo Bagman, for instance--good or bad? He was suspected, after all. So discuss!

There are definitely all sorts of characters who appeared throughout the books that hold the possibility of being Death Eaters. Take Rita Skeeter, for example. It seems like she was always working against the cause of the Order, distorting the facts and making people like Harry Potter look like fools. She was manipulative and treacherous, and I think she definitely could have had an allegiance to the Death Eater side. It only makes sense that they would need someone to do this type of work for them, be their mouthpiece, so to speak.

I will speculate on more people later, I'm sure! This is fun!

Ooh -- good discussion!! There are characters that may hold allegiance to the Death Eaters, who weren't thought to be. This may be going off topic a little, but there is also the possibility of the imperius curse being used on Good Members to make them go against their own side and do the Dark Lord's bidding. We saw this in the last book with Thicknesse being under the Imperius, and I believe there was also a couple more Ministry workers under the Imperius. Could Rita have been under the Imperius, or maybe she was just completely on Fudge's side so that anything she did was for him? Could it have been out of lust? Personally, I feel that Rita was too on Fudge's side where anything she did was for him. If there was anything that he disproved of (admitting to the return of the Dark Lord - since it was feared), then she would be working for him to cover up all proof.

In reality then, there were three sides in this story: the Death Eater side, Harry's side (or light side), and the side that is neither good or bad but just lives in fear.


I have more, but just forgot my train of thought... so I will speculate later

I would have liked to see some kind of clarification of Ludo Bagman in the final book. We know that he was suspected of being a Death Eater but the charges were dropped. I don't remember ever getting a reason why he was suspected but there had to have been a reason for it. I think like the Nazi regime in Germany, many people outwardly showed allegiance to the darker side in order to protect themselves while inwardly and/or privately they voiced their disdain. I think those that held a true allegiance to Voldemort were few, possibly all of the people that sat around the table in the first chapter. I think the number of people forced into allegiance, be it out of fear or will-bending magic, was far greater a number than any true followers of Voldemort.

there's always a possiblilty that Dolores was one of us...

About Ludo Bagman: Ludo was accused of passing information to Augustus Rookwood, an old friend of Ludo's father, as part of Rookwood's intelligence network. At his trial, Ludo admitted passing the information, but claimed that he didn't realize that Rookwood was actually working for Voldemort. Apparently the Wizengamot must have believed that he had been foolish rather than deliberately treacherous.

Now, do we actually think this is true? I tend to believe it. He never seemed like a particular bright man, and while he was certainly dishonest and devious, I don't get the impression that he actually was a death eater. For goodness sake, he was afraid of dealing with the goblins! He seems much too spineless to get involved with Voldemort, in my opinion.

i dont think ludo bagman was a death eathe.like tiff said he wasnt particularlyintelligent enough to know whom he was passing a message to.but dolres could certainly have been one!in the last book she was the head of the muggleborn registration comissin and also she pretended thatthe was related to the Selwyns!!i dont think rita could be a deatheater though.she was the one who wrote harrys interview!if she was a deatheater she wouldnt have ppl to know voldemort's come back!