Death Eater
| 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
| Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples. |
Fics
Video
Fanvids
- DEATH EATERS • This is Entertainment • by Sapphiamur (2010)
- Deatheaters - Voldemort's Chosen by atamira232 (2011)
- Death Eaters Seven Nation Army by [MGA]LOCKED (2012)
- Death Eaters - This place about to Blow by Fietoesen (2011?)
Fan Films
- The Last Death Eater is a short fan film featuring an OC Death Eater, Damian Thorn.
Music and Fanmixes
- Wizard Rock playlist: The Other Side, Archived version on 8tracks (October 20, 2014) and on youtube (October 22, 2016)
Meta
- "I said before how I feel it’s like Voldemort’s closest followers exemplify some of the main reasons someone would have to join the Death Eaters", Archived version by potteryet.
- something that's been on my mind for awhile now, Archived version by thegreatsnapeescape on tumblr
Death Eater-centric Sites & Communities
- BurningMark, a LiveJournal newsletter
- Ink, a fanfiction archive
- The Ultimate Death Eater Contest, a fic challenge at FanFiction.Net