Why the Death Eaters SERVE Voldemort - Harry Potter Explained

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Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. In this video, we’re going to be discussing Lord Voldemort & the Death Eaters. Now, we know the Death Eaters as Lord Voldemort's loyal followers, they bear the dark mark, and when the curse Morsmordre is cast the dark mark symbol is projected in to the sky, a symbol that incites fear in the heart of many.

From the Goblet of Fire:

“He realised that it was a colossal skull, composed of what looked like emerald stars, with a serpent protruding from its mouth like a tongue. As they watched, it rose higher and higher, blazing in a haze of greenish smoke, etched against the black sky like a new constellation."

Arthur Weasley expresses his fear of the symbol in the goblet of fire:

"...You-Know-Who and his followers sent the Dark Mark into the air whenever they killed. The terror it inspired... you have no idea, you’re too young. Just picture coming home and finding the Dark Mark hovering over your house, and knowing what you’re about to find inside... Everyone’s worst fear... the very worst."

Now, we know that when Voldemort was just a boy at school, he was in Slytherin house, and it was here that he formed a gang of fellow slytherin students.

Dumbledore described Riddles gang as “a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking glory, and the thuggish seeking a leader who could show them more refined cruelty”. It was these same students that are considered to be the forerunners to what-would-become the Death Eaters that we see later on in the books and films. Death Eaters are pure-blood radical supremacists, that cast unforgivable curses without remorse, and torture muggles,half-bloods, and blood-traitors alike. One thing that I always found interesting was that the Death Eaters were pure-bloods, seemingly hellbent on achieving pure blood supremacy - but right at the top of their organization there was a half blood, Lord Voldemort. The Death Eaters always seem so proud of their pure magical bloodlines, so isn’t it ironic that their leader, the dark lord himself, was a filthy half blood?

If the Death eaters are so intent on pure-blood supremacy and ridding the world or dominating over half-bloods / muggles, isn’t it unusual that the very man that they follow IS a half-blood? What’s their angle? Why do they follow him?

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