Is he a Death Eater? And why is it he is treated worse than the others even though it was he who did the most when helping the dark lord to return
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Wormtail, while not the most faithful servant, was the person responsible for Lord Voldemort's resurrection, and possessor of a very cool hand. He was the one who allowed Harry's parents to be found and killed. Why then, after all that he did for Voldemort, was he cast as a mere servant?
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In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when Voldemort tries to kill Harry Potter and Harry Potter travel to the Deathly hallows, that is, Kings Cross Station and he later comes back. There it has been mentioned that Voldemort had also fallen down and Bellatrix tried to support him to stand up as if she has some affection towards him.  “My Lord . . . my Lord . . . ” It was Bellatrix’s voice, and she spoke as if to a lover.  Is it true that Bellatrix Lestrange had some affection towards Voldemort?
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If Snape didn't fall in love with Lily, or &quot;got over&quot; it, would he still be able to summon a Patronus or would he then become a run of the mill Death Eater? According to J. K. Rowling, Snape is the only Death Eater with a Patronus.  Samantha: Was snape the only death eater who could produce a full patronus J.K. Rowling: Yes, because a Patronus is used against things that the Death Eaters generally generate, or fight alongside. They would not need Patronuses.   Snape's Patronus is a doe, explained as being because of his love for Lily, which may very well be his happy memory to generate the Patronus.  If this was no longer the case, would the consistent presence of the Dementors on his supposed side mean he's no longer able to summon a corporeal Patronus?
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(And please, nobody say "Cause Dumbedore asked them to")  We know one of the tasks of the Order after its re-creation was to keep safe a weapon Voldemort was after.     “What’s he after apart from followers?” Harry asked swiftly.   He thought he saw Sirius and Lupin exchange the most fleeting of looks before Sirius said, “Stuff he can only get by stealth.”   When Harry continued to look puzzled, Sirius said, “Like a weapon. Something he didn’t have last time.”   (Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 5, The Order of the Phoenix)   Sturgis Podmore was Imperiused while patrolling around the door behind which it was kept, and Arthur Weasley was attacked there by Nagini (or Voldemort in Nagini).     “Your father has been injured in the course of his work for the Order of the Phoenix,” said Dumbledore.   [...]   “The Ministry wouldn’t want everyone to know a dirty great serpent got —”   “Arthur!” said Mrs. Weasley warningly.   “— got — er — me,” Mr. Weasley said hastily,   [...]   “You were guarding it, weren’t you?” said George quietly. “The weapon? The thing You-Know-Who’s after?”   “George, be quiet!” snapped Mrs. Weasley.   “Anyway,” said Mr. Weasley in a raised voice...   (Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 22, St Mungo's Hospital)   -     “Sturgis Podmore,” said Hermione, breathlessly. “Arrested for trying to get through a door. Lucius Malfoy got him too. I bet he did it the day you saw him there, Harry. Sturgis had Moody’s Invisibility Cloak, right? So what if he was standing guard by the door, invisible, and Malfoy heard him move, or guessed he was there, or just did the Imperius Curse on the off chance that a guard was there? So when Sturgis next had an opportunity — probably when it was his turn on guard duty again — he tried to get into the department to steal the weapon for Voldemort"   (Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 26, Seen And Unforeseen)   We also learn later that  about Voldemort and Harry.  Voldemort was after it, because he thought its end would tell him how to destroy Harry.     And so, since his return to his body, and particularly since your extraordinary escape from him last year, he has been determined to hear that prophecy in its entirety. This is the weapon he has been seeking so assiduously   since his return: the knowledge of how to destroy you.   (Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 37, The Lost Prophecy)   But let's look at the content of the Prophecy, and what part he already knows of:     “THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD APPROACHES... BORN TO THOSE WHO HAVE THRICE DEFIED HIM, BORN   AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES... AND THE DARK LORD WILL MARK HIM AS HIS EQUAL, BUT HE WILL HAVE POWER THE DARK LORD KNOWS   NOT... AND EITHER MUST DIE AT THE HAND OF THE OTHER FOR NEITHER CAN LIVE WHILE THE OTHER SURVIVES... THE ONE WITH THE   POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD WILL BE BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES...”   (Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 37, The Lost Prophecy)   -     “He heard only the first part, the part foretelling the birth of a boy in July to parents who had thrice defied Voldemort."   (Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 37, The Lost Prophecy)   The bold parts are already known to Voldemort... and the rest of the prophecy does not really gives him valuable information:   Mark him as his equal: OK, that's already done. He'll have a power the Dark Lord knows not: Yep, that's love. But since Voldemort does not know of it, he won't be able to understand this sentence. He will imagine another power, but that won't help him (and he probably already guessed this while planning to kill baby Harry). Either must die at the hand of the other...: Alright, so Voldemort should go and kill Harry then! Oh, but he kind of already wanted to anyway, didn't he?   Was preventing Voldemort from hearing the end of the Prophecy worth all the trouble and the risks (one member of the Order lost for 6 months to Azkaban, another heavily wounded and happy not to be dead...)? Why did they bother to do so?
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Given that Harry was one of the Horcruxes, it is not in Voldemort's interest to kill him. Harry is one of the keys to Voldemort's own survival. Why is Voldemort so bent on killing Harry despite Harry being so important to his own survival?
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The facts:   The job was cursed.       Oh, he definitely wanted the Defence Against the Dark Arts job. The Aftermath of our little meeting proved that. You see, we have not been able to keep a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor for more than a year since I refused the post to Lord Voldemort.   - Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince  It lasted From 1957 until the fall of Voldemort (1998)       1957 (Y-23) [Voldemort] resurfaces and applies to teach [Defence Against the Dark Arts] Ten years after the death of [Hepzibah Smith], [Voldemort] returns to [Hogwarts], where Dumbledore] refuses to grant him a teaching job. He then curses the [Defence Against the Dark Arts] position, and since that day, no professor has stayed for more than one year in that post. Again we don't know exactly when this happened, but since most evidence points to [Dumbledore] becoming headmaster in 1956 [[Y-24]], [Voldemort] couldn't have come looking for a job much sooner than this. (HBP20)  No one could hold that position for more than one year       It's well seen throughout the series that there is a "curse" on the DADA teacher position, that no one can hold that post for more than a year    Is there (preferably canon) information on:   How did Voldemort manage to do such a powerful curse? Why didn't Dumbledore, knowing about the curse, not do anything to lift it? Why didn't Voldemort put that curse in the headmaster's position, or on the whole Gryffindor house?
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By now, most of us are familiar with the quote by Ron Weasley in Sorcerer's Stone:     There hasn't been a witch or wizard gone bad who wasn't in Slytherin.    Logic states that this means that all dark wizards/witches were from the Slytherin house, but not that all Slytherin were dark wizards/witches.  But how much of this was just hyperbole from an 11 year old boy?  After all,  was arguably a "dark wizard" and studied at the Durmstrang Institute. Peter Pettigrew (who actually was a Death Eater) and Sirius Black (who was falsely accused as one) were also both from Gryffindor.  As noted in  and from Goblet of Fire, we know that the wizarding community is not confined to England or even Europe. We know that there are other schools. I haven't been able to positively confirm this, but it appears - and it would make sense that the other schools have their own "houses" similar to Hogwarts. Following that line of thought, it isn't a stretch to assume that other houses look for similar traits/qualities such as "potential greatness".  Seeing as that what Voldemort  would affect all wizards/witches, it would make sense if wizards/witches from other countries joined up with him.  Is there any evidence that the Death Eaters was or was not an international group?
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Duh!  But, do the books ever describe what he actually looks like? I found a diagram by Tolkien himself:  But this looks too... vague? And I don't know whether he was ever intent on continuing with this one as the official look for the great villain. I just started reading Fellowship, completed half of it, when I was informed that everything in the movies is not accurately modelled after the book. And I know for a fact that the fiery eye was just imagined by Peter Jackson for the movies. So, is the Sauron seen in the movie a correct description? Is there a description at all? And if there is, how do the books describe Sauron?
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Sirius himself says at some point in Goblet of Fire that Crouch pushed through legislation to have him convicted and thrown in Azkaban without a trial.  There seems to be a general consensus, specifically voiced by Fudge but also implicit in Crouch pushing through this legislation, that Sirius was considered one of Voldemort’s innermost, most dangerous, and most trusted right hands. Easily as inner-circle as the Lestranges, for example.  It seems quite unlikely to me that someone so close to Voldemort should not be a Death Eater—apart from Fenrir Greyback (who I would think is much less inner-circle), I do not recall hearing of any of Voldemort’s important servants not being Death Eaters.  As far as canon describes, all Death Eaters have the Dark Mark magic-tattooed on their arm, to be used as a way for Voldemort to summon them to him. Considering that Karkaroff, who had definitely burnt all his Death Eater bridges, still had the Dark Mark, I am assuming that getting rid of the Mark is not possible: once it’s on, it stays on.  Yet, as Hermione points out in Order of the Phoenix (ch. 16, “In the Hog’s Head”), Sirius does not have the Dark Mark.  So why was he so swiftly convicted and locked up? I mean, I know they were eager to be seen to be doing something (as Fudge keeps pointing out is his excuse for most of the miscarriages of justice he commits)… but seriously, did no one think to check if Sirius actually had a Dark Mark on his arm or not? Did the Ministry of Magic not even know at the time that all Death Eaters had the Mark? Or were they just happy to accept—without the scrutiny of a full trial—that a non-Death Eater would commit mass murder for a Voldemort who was presumed defeated?
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At the height of their powers, Grindelwald commanded the entire European continent save Britain, whereas Voldemort affected mostly just Britain. Since the population of the whole European continent is higher than Britain's, that means Grindelwald likely had more followers than Voldemort.  Why is Grindelwald considered second darkest wizard and not Voldemort?
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Can it be inferred from canon whether Quirrell was a willing host to Voldemort? Was he a supporter of him before he became his host?  If he was tricked, for example, by meeting a weakened, ghostly form of Voldemort who promised great reward for helping, and then afterwards he was just forced to do all the evil he did, I would not count it as being a willing host.
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It's quite popularly stated that Snape was the only Death Eater capable of creating a Patronus (due to his love for Lily). Also, a Patronus is the only weapon against Dementors.  How do Death Eaters (except Snape of course) fight against Dementors? Do they just die after encountering Dementors as there's no other option?  Or, do Dementors just not attack Death Eaters because there's nothing to feed on?
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It seems to me that Harry could have saved himself a lot of grief if he had allowed people to see his memories (either through extraction or Occlumency). For instance:   He could have proved Lucius Malfoy placed the diary in Ginny's basket. He could have proved Sirius's innocent (with the memory of Wormtail's confession). Most importantly, he could have proven Voldemort was back.    Maybe it would have made for a less exciting story, but it sure would have made his life easier.
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Is there any mention on the abilities/capabilities that make Albus Dumbledore the finest wizard of his age? I know he defeated Grindewald and Voldemort was afraid of him too because of his magical knowledge.   What I want to know is as a reader, did we get to glimpse exactly what all those abilities were? We came to know that he was excellent in transfiguration (Book 5) and he could speak Mermish (Book 4) and Can perform magic using strange unknown languages (Book 2 and Book 6)..Also his work on Alchemy and Discovery of Uses of Dragon's Blood (Book 1).   Anything else that might suggest he was more knowledgeable than any other wizard alive?
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When reading the , I took away the following highlights (emphasis mine):  TL;DR - Did Ekrizdis create Dementors?      The fortress upon it was originally home to a little-known sorcerer   who called himself Ekrizdis. Evidently extremely powerful, but of   unknown nationality, Ekrizdis, who is believed to have been insane,   was a practitioner of the worst kinds of Dark Arts.     Those who entered to investigate refused afterwards to talk of what   they had found inside, but the least frightening part of it was that   the place was infested with Dementors.     Others were afraid of what might happen to the Dementors infesting the   building if they deprived them of their home. The creatures were   already strong and impossible to kill; many feared a horrible revenge   if they took away a habitat where they appeared to thrive. The very   walls of the building seemed steeped in misery and pain, and the   Dementors were determined to cling to it.     The fortress was therefore left abandoned for many years, a home to   continually breeding Dementors.     Experts explained to him that the only reason the Dementors were   (mostly) confined to the island was that they were being provided with   a constant supply of souls on which to feed. If deprived of prisoners,   they were likely to abandon the prison and head for the mainland.    My feeling is that it is possible that Ekrizdis created the Dementors. However, the way the text uses tense and wording it could go either way. It seems that if they were not created on the island that the vast majority of them were hanging around there. Is there any other evidence to confirm the Dementors were created by Ekrizdis rather than just "existing" and being drawn to the island?  Related, but does not touch on initial creation and possible link to Ekrizdis:   It would not be the first time a dark creature were created;  created the first Basilisk. Although, a Basilisk is a physical creature, while a Dementor is more of spirit/embodiment.
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I have a character in the Forgotten Realms, Orryn, who is a gnome whose village was burnt down, who forged a pact with a pit fiend to gain Warlock powers. This was all to avenge his people and he is good, albeit chaotic good.  Now, he's been talking with the party's cleric and while the cleric doesn't know he's a warlock (he tells people that he's a wizard), the cleric DOES know that he struggles with "inner demons". Orryn has been connecting with a god, which would be either Baervan Wildwanderer (because he's a forest gnome) or Chauntea (who is the god the other cleric worships), and wants to take a 1st level in cleric to combat that evil inside of him.   My question: Is this possible? From a purely RAW standpoint, I don't think that warlocks can lose their powers, but would his good deity even bother with someone who sold their soul to a devil? And would that pit fiend continue fueling their powers?   NOTE: I'm not stepping on the cleric's toes, he's actually moving away in a couple weeks so we won't have a cleric anymore (though that's not why I am leveling in cleric).
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Why wasn't James Potter his own Secret Keeper? The whole thing came about because Potters chose the wrong Secret Keeper (who betrayed them) for the Fidelius Charm on their house. Why didn't James just make himself a Secret Keeper? We know that it’s possible from Deathly Hallows: (Bill and Arthur Weasley are their own Secret Keepers).  “I’ve been getting them all out of the Burrow,” Bill explained. “Moved them to Muriel’s. The Death Eaters know Ron’s with you now, they’re bound to target the family – don’t apologize,” he added at the sight of Harry’s expression. “It was always a matter of time, Dad’s been saying so for months. We’re the biggest blood traitor family there is.” “How are they protected?” asked Harry. “Fidelius Charm. Dad’s Secret-Keeper. And we’ve done it on this cottage too; I’m Secret-Keeper here.&quot;