Death Eaters

The Death Eaters are the troops that followed the Dark Lord Voldemort in the First Wizarding War. According to Severus Snape, the members of this army were numbered in the thousands, and included wizards and witches who believed in the supremacy of Blood, brutal inbreeding, wizards of pureblood heritage, wizards to whom the Imperius curse has been imposed to, and of creatures like werewolves who decided to follow Voldemort for unknown reasons.

## History

The first members joined Lord Voldemort in his school days, when he still used the name of Tom Marvolo Riddle. They were mainly his Slytherin companions; it is not known if members of other houses followed him, who began to esteem him after he accidentally lobotomized himself with his Natural Occlumency after accidentally killing his friend Myrtle Warren and becoming a psychopath who proclaimed the supremacy of the Pureblood. Soon after, foreign magicians, convicted criminals, other pureblood magicians, half-bloods who denied their Muggle heritage and children of the original Death Eaters joined him.

## Origins

The original name of this group was the Knights of Walpurgis, referring to the feast of Walpurgis Night, where Muggles would pray for protection against witchcraft. The name "Death Eaters" was adopted after it was used as a derogatory name for the Knights in a Daily Prophet article written by Lily Potter.

## Members

The members of the Death Eaters were several thousand, but there are several names that can be highlighted. Lord Voldemort made sure to have within his ranks an "inner circle" in which there were wizards and witches with some exceptional talents which Voldemort believed could be of help. The Death Eaters usually gave themselves a code name to disguise their identity, a name which reflected some features of their personality, their magical abilities or even their family. Some notable Death Eaters are and/or were:

## References

Book 1 - HP&PoS - Ch. 32 - The Death Eater Snape,

"In fact, even the term 'Death Eaters' was first used in a Daily Prophet editorial as an insult against the organization formally known as 'The Knights of Walpurgis,' an insult the Dark Lord eventually coopted and turned to his own political uses."".
Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 79 - Meet Regulus Black,

Regulus joins the Death Eaters.
Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 79 - Meet Regulus Black,

Dolohov, Rosier, and Regulus raid Upper Appleby.
Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 79 - Meet Regulus Black,

"It was for his skills at a duelist that he'd been recruited by members of the Dark Lord's Inner Circle, after all.".
Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 83 - Prelude (Theodore Nott),

"...the children of his vassals, Crabbe and Goyle. Duncan and Gregory Sr. were both quite vexed...".
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 114 - The Blackest Day (Pt 3),

Mr. January reveals himself as Barty Crouch Junior and greets Nott as Mr. Nimrod.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 95 - Back to School (Pt 2),

"That [Marcus Flint is] the son of an unmarked Death Eater who was looking to follow in his father's shady footsteps until the mysterious Harry Potter did something to change the boy's career trajectory? Yes, I'm aware.".
Book 4 - HP&TRG - Ch. 151 - The Quidditch World Cup (Pt 6),

"Severed Head of Retired Hit Wizard Durwood
Gibbon Found Amongst the Wreckage!".
Book 4 - HP&TRG - Ch. 151 - The Quidditch World Cup (Pt 6),

Durwood Gibbon attacks Tracey Davis and is decapitated by Lucius Malfoy.
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 95 - Back to School (Pt 2),

".nd the only reason Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange were ever allowed into the Dark Lord's Inner Circle. Boruslav made their induction one of his conditions for swearing allegiance to the Dark Lord.".
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 120 - What's Past is Prologue (Pt 2),

"Even though they served the same master, Pettigrew had never regretted that anonymous tip of his that landed Mulciber in Azkaban.".
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 114 - The Blackest Day (Pt 3),

Mr. January reveals himself as Barty Crouch Junior and greets Nott as Mr. Nimrod.
Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 62 - Meet Peter Pettigrew,

"Peter "Mr. Norvegicus" Pettigrew bowed his head obediently. ".
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 137 - The Future All Around Us, Waiting to Be Born (Pt 1),

Snape tells Sirius what he has learned about his family.
Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 61 - Post-Game Developments,

"Nemo is the Latin word for nobody! An appropriate pseudonym, don't you agree, for the man you probably know better as Augustus Rookwood!".
Book 1 - HP&PoS - Ch. 32 - The Death Eater Snape,

"I was Mr. Aconite,".
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 93 - Reactions & Overreactions (Pt 4),

"His wife, brother, and two of his sons had died during the Wizarding War, while his third son was a convicted Death Eater who was not among those that had been rescued from Azkaban earlier in the week.".
Book 2 - HP&TSE - Ch. 79 - Meet Regulus Black,

" After Rusty carried out the sentence, healers took the now mindless criminal (formerly Mortimer Travers, a British ex-pat and probably a former Death Eater)...".
Book 3 - HP&DEM - Ch. 93 - Reactions & Overreactions (Pt 4),

"Uriah never took the Dark Mark and even gave testimony against his son which is what secured his own freedom and Lordship...".
Book 4 - HP&TRG - Chapter not added yet,

Cassilda Selwyn makes reference to Corban Yaxley speaking out of turn in front of Voldemort and being tortured, which happened to Mr. Misericorde in a previous chapter.