HP Poll: Death Eaters' Loyalty
Jan. 10th, 2005 05:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
retro_eidas[Poll #416171]
The above question was spurned partly from reading Red Hen's "Tom Riddle & the Knights of Walpurgis" essay and just my general suspicions that erupted at the end of OOTP. It does seem Voldemort has been lying to the whole of his Death Eaters, claiming he's a pureblood (Bellatrix's reaction). However, a lie some of them, possibly Lucius and a few others, may already be aware of. Red Hen's essay went further and really made me wonder... who may potentially be screwing over who here? Has Voldemort gotten the better of these ancient pureblood families... or could they still be playing him like a fiddle. Tom's obsessive quest for eternal life - despite all his power & Legilimens ability - distracts him and/or his arrogance makes him underestimate his loyal Death Eaters? Did the pureblood elitists always plan to stand behind someone who they themselves would classify as a "mudblood"... even if he is the legitimate last Heir of Slytherin? Tom does seem to have tried to bury his "mudbloodedness". Maybe they simply didn't know Tom was a half-blood... it seems they do have the opportunity to find out now. Is Harry just going to keep quiet about the cat he let out of the bag during the Death Eater confrontation? That seems really unlikely to me, unless Dumbledore prevents him for whatever inexplicable reason.
The above question was spurned partly from reading Red Hen's "Tom Riddle & the Knights of Walpurgis" essay and just my general suspicions that erupted at the end of OOTP. It does seem Voldemort has been lying to the whole of his Death Eaters, claiming he's a pureblood (Bellatrix's reaction). However, a lie some of them, possibly Lucius and a few others, may already be aware of. Red Hen's essay went further and really made me wonder... who may potentially be screwing over who here? Has Voldemort gotten the better of these ancient pureblood families... or could they still be playing him like a fiddle. Tom's obsessive quest for eternal life - despite all his power & Legilimens ability - distracts him and/or his arrogance makes him underestimate his loyal Death Eaters? Did the pureblood elitists always plan to stand behind someone who they themselves would classify as a "mudblood"... even if he is the legitimate last Heir of Slytherin? Tom does seem to have tried to bury his "mudbloodedness". Maybe they simply didn't know Tom was a half-blood... it seems they do have the opportunity to find out now. Is Harry just going to keep quiet about the cat he let out of the bag during the Death Eater confrontation? That seems really unlikely to me, unless Dumbledore prevents him for whatever inexplicable reason.
