Death Eater

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Character Group
Name: Death Eaters
Type: Villains
Fandom: Harry Potter
Members: Lucius Malfoy
Bellatrix Lestrange
Fenrir Greyback
Peter Pettigrew
Regulus Black
Severus Snape
Barty Crouch Jr.
Other: Knights of Walpurgis (alternate term while the Harry Potter books were still a work in progress)
Related: Voldemort
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Death Eater is a term from the Harry Potter books that refers to the followers of Voldemort. A secret sect, the inner circle of which have marks on their forearms.

Characters

There are many named Death Eaters in the Harry Potter books.

Fan favorites seem to be Lucius Malfoy, Severus Snape, Bellatrix Lestrange, and Fenrir Greyback.

A full list of Death Eaters can be found at The Harry Potter Lexicon.

Fanfiction

Because of their role in the novels, Death Eaters are often used as the bad guys in fanfiction, and often they are portrayed as greedy, hedonistic, and/or amoral.

Death Eaters in fan fiction tend to fall into a few different categories:

  • the villain
  • the anti-hero (particularly in the case of Lucius, Severus, or Draco)--ie, the main character of the story who is not particularly a good person.
  • the object of reform--ie, someone for the hero to help reform, or as an excuse for the government to rewrite law.

A common trope in fics where a character is Dark (or just joins Voldemort) the character becomes a Death Eater.

Some characters that are good in canon, such as Ron Weasley, can be written as Death Eaters in fics for the purpose of Character Bashing, leading to the trope Ron the Death Eater.

Example Fanworks

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Death Eater-centric Sites & Communities

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