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Death Eaters

Death Eaters are Voldemort’s named followers. The books treat the name as a faction, not a mood: a mark on the arm, a mask in a crowd, and orders that include murder. Bellatrix Lestrange is the believer. Lucius Malfoy is the patron who learns the mark is not a fashion. Peter Pettigrew buys his life with the Potters. Barty Crouch Jr spends a year wearing another man’s face to deliver Harry to a graveyard. Draco is given the mark as a punishment for his father and cannot finish the murder he is assigned. Regulus Black defects and dies taking a locket. Snape defects and stays close enough to be useful. Narcissa is not given a battlefield role; she is here because the family faction, and the lie she tells in the Forest, are part of the same story.