The Dan Radcliff photos -- oh my! That will certainly break him out of any HP typecasting he might have feared!
I'm more of a Rupert Grint girl myself, though.
HomeSweetDisney said:
Okay, in an attempt to bring the discussion back to the books, I have a question I'd like to pose. I saw it on Mugglenet and I thought I'd ask you all what you think.
If Voldemort is killed, do you think the Death Eaters would continue to rally together? Would they still have the desire or motivation to continue his work? Or would they give in for the most part and attempt to dissolve back into "normal" wizarding life as they have supposedly done since his first downfall after the Potters death?
No, I don't think DE's would continue to band together. We saw how easily they gave up the first time and how quickly they were to explain they had been under the Imperious Curse.
va32h gave a great answer.
I do have a few things to add:
I feel that this time, many DEs will die or end up in Azkaban rather than be able to claim they were under the Imperious Curse. Hopefully the Ministry will not make the same mistake twice and let some go free in exchange for bags of gold.
I think we see some hint of DE's not wanting to join V this time around, much less rally together if he is defeated a second time. Karkaroff fled and was killed is one example. We also see Draco hesitate before DD in HBP-- he seems to be seriously considering DD's offer to hide his family. To me, that shows he knows he's in deep and is scared
We also see Narcissa act very un-Death Eater-ish by worrying about Draco and asking Snape to make an Unbreakable Vow. I think that if she was truly comitted to this cause (and knew Draco was truly committed) and really believed V would triumph this time, she would not have worried like this. She was even willing to disobey V by asking Snape for help. We see her crying for her only son while Bellatrix brags about how she would have no problem giving her son's to V's service. This behavior tells me Narcissa, at least, is capable of love and is not fully comitted to the DEs when it becomes personal with her family. Oddly enough, I see a parallel to Lily Potter here: Her love for her son led her to seek protection for him.