| “ | The Dark Lord will rise again, Crouch! Throw us into Azkaban; we will wait! He will rise again and will come for us, he will reward us beyond any of his other supporters! We alone were faithful! We alone tried to find him! | „ |
| ~ Bellatrix Lestrange on trial for her Death Eater activities. |
| “ | Welcome, my friends. Thirteen years it's been and yet here you stand before me as though it were only yesterday. I confess myself...disappointed. Not one of you tried to find me... Crabbe! Macnair! Goyle! Not even you... Lucius! | „ |
| ~ Lord Voldemort to his Death Eater followers after being restored to life. |
The Death Eaters, also sometimes called "The Eaters" and sometimes known as "Knights of Walpurgis", are the main antagonists of the Harry Potter series. They are a society of renegade witches and wizards that serve as the followers of the infamous Dark Wizard Lord Voldemort.
History[]
The group primarily consisted of radical pure-blood supremacist Wizards and Witches who practiced the Dark Arts with reckless abandon, almost entirely without regard or fear of wizarding law. Voldemort used this select group of Wizards and Witches during both the first and second Wizarding Wars, employing them as his elite force.
In uniform, they are often cloaked with draping black robes and wear dark, oddly-shaped masks with snake-like eye slits to cover their faces. They also tend to wear tall, pointed hats approximately half the length of the wearer's height. Death Eaters are not to be confused with Dementors, the guards of Azkaban which are similar in shape.
Death Eaters are often spies; they keep their loyalty to Voldemort secret as many are involved in British Wizarding politics and various bureaucratic organizations.
Every Death Eater had a symbol on their arm, called the Dark Mark: a skull with a serpent crawling out of the mouth. When Voldemort touched one of them via the Protean Charm, each of the Death Eaters felt it, signaling for them to Apparate to their leader's side. A larger Dark Mark cast in the sky with the spell Morsmordre would sometimes be used to frighten the Wizarding World, because it was frequently cast at the site of murders.
Notable Death Eaters are Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange, and Severus Snape. Snape, who served as a professor of potions at Hogwarts and a true friend of Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of the school, served the Dark Lord but was acting as a spy for the Order of the Phoenix. Lucius is the father of Draco Malfoy, an enemy of Harry Potter and student of the Slytherin House. Draco later became a Death Eater himself; both he and his father planned the death of Dumbledore as well as Harry.
When Voldemort was finally defeated by Harry through a rebounded Killing Curse, the Dark Marks on the Death Eaters' arms turned into powerless scars and the ones who survived the Battle of Hogwarts were immediately arrested, while others fled away. It is unknown if those who fled got arrested afterwards, or if they are still on the run.
Known Members[]
The Inner Circle[]
- Lord Voldemort - Founder and Supreme Leader
- Bellatrix Lestrange - Second-in-Command
- Barty Crouch Jr.
- Peter Pettigrew (Movie Version)
- Corban Yaxley
- Alecto Carrow
- Amycus Carrow
Other Death Eaters[]
- Antonin Dolohov
- Thorfinn Rowle
- Evan Rosier
- Walden Macnair
- Augustus Rookwood
- Rodolphus Lestrange
- Travers
- Rabastan Lestrange
- Selwyn
- Lestrange Sr.
- Nott Sr.
- Avery Sr.
- Avery Jr.
- Crabbe Sr.
- Goyle Sr.
- Rosier Sr.
- Jugson
- Gibbon
- Mulciber Sr.
- Mulciber Jr.
- Wilkes
- Pyrites (Possibly)
Defectors[]
- Severus Snape (Inner Circle)
- Peter Pettigrew (Novel Version)
- Lucius Malfoy (Inner Circle)
- Draco Malfoy (Inner Circle)
- Igor Karkaroff
- Regulus Black
Affiliated[]
Supporters and Allies[]
- Nagini
- Quirinus Quirrell
- The Serpent of Slytherin
- Dementors
- Fenrir Greyback - Mercenary (Death Eater associate, leader of a vicious group of werewolves and leader of the Snatchers)
- Golgomath
- Giants
- British Ministry of Magic (Death Eater-controlled)
- Pius Thicknesse (Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic (Pre-Death Eater-controlled)/Minister of the Ministry of Magic (Death Eater-controlled) under the Imperius Curse)
- Dolores Umbridge (Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic/Head of the Improper Use of Magic Office at the Ministry of Magic/Head of the Muggle-Born Registration Commission at the Ministry of Magic (all Death Eater-controlled))
- Mafalda Hopkirk (Assistant of the Improper Use of Magic Office at the Ministry of Magic (Death Eater-controlled, presumably by proxy and forced)
- Albert Runcorn (High-ranking investigator of the Muggle-Born Registration Commission at the Ministry of Magic (Death Eater-controlled)/High-ranking official at the Ministry of Magic (Death Eater-controlled))
- John Dawlish (Auror of the Auror Department at the Ministry of Magic (Death Eater-controlled))
- Werewolves (A large group led by Fenrir Greyback)
- Stanley Shunpike (Death Eater associate under the Imperius Curse)
- Mr. Borgin (friend and associate)
- Scabior - Second-in-Command of the Snatchers
- Snatchers (Voldemort's criminal mercenaries charged with abducting his enemies for various reasons)
- Inferi
- The Daily Prophet (under Death Eater government)
- Vincent Crabbe (Indirect ally by family relation)
- Gregory Goyle (Indirect ally by family relation)
- Orion Black (Indirect supporter by family relation)
- Walburga Black (Indirect supporter by family relation)
- Pansy Parkinson (Indirect supporter)
- Theodore Nott (indirect ally by family relation)
- Draco Malfoy's gang (most of them indirect allies by family relation or support)
Defectors[]
- Narcissa Malfoy (Ally by marriage to Lucius Malfoy and motherhood of Draco Malfoy, also sister of Bellatrix, allowed to sit in the inner circle of Death Eaters)
- Kreacher (Ally by service of Regulus Black)
Gallery[]
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