Nice theory. But are you suggesting that the Death Eaters are going to witness Harry defeat Voldemort, then proceed to not kill Harry, and to go out and spread the word among the general populace?
“So, Lord Jugson, how did you happen to witness this extraordinary event?”
“Oh, I, uh, just happened to be passing by when I saw the Boy-Who-Lived duelling a returned Lord Voldemort. As did Lucius Malfoy and thirty or so of our mutual friends who had all been falsely accused of being Death Eaters last time. Err, excuse me, I think I left the kettle on...”
But are you suggesting that the Death Eaters are going to witness Harry defeat Voldemort, then proceed to not kill Harry, and to go out and spread the word among the general populace?
Do you really want to throw a killing spell when the last person who threw a killing spell died?
It will start with some of the Death Eaters simply apparating away, because they don’t want to be part of the mess.
The last ones who remain have a choice to offer Harry their allegiance.
Do you really want to throw a killing spell when the last person who threw a killing spell died?
Even if the Death Eaters would normally be too stupid to switch to their other lethal hexes (not guaranteed—Lucius, at least, has a respectable measure of intelligence), just now they’ve been instructed to apply a significant variety of countermeasures if Harry does anything. This greatly increases the probability of at least one of them thinking outside the extremely narrow AK box.
The last ones who remain have a choice to offer Harry their allegiance.
That’s still of limited use from a social capital perspective. Harry will have a devil of a time getting the remaining Light champions to align behind him if his first public recruits are Death Eaters. (and if they’re not public recruits, then the whole “spread the word” element fails and there’s no reason for the public to believe that Voldemort came back and was defeated again)
Nice theory. But are you suggesting that the Death Eaters are going to witness Harry defeat Voldemort, then proceed to not kill Harry, and to go out and spread the word among the general populace?
“So, Lord Jugson, how did you happen to witness this extraordinary event?”
“Oh, I, uh, just happened to be passing by when I saw the Boy-Who-Lived duelling a returned Lord Voldemort. As did Lucius Malfoy and thirty or so of our mutual friends who had all been falsely accused of being Death Eaters last time. Err, excuse me, I think I left the kettle on...”
Do you really want to throw a killing spell when the last person who threw a killing spell died?
It will start with some of the Death Eaters simply apparating away, because they don’t want to be part of the mess. The last ones who remain have a choice to offer Harry their allegiance.
Even if the Death Eaters would normally be too stupid to switch to their other lethal hexes (not guaranteed—Lucius, at least, has a respectable measure of intelligence), just now they’ve been instructed to apply a significant variety of countermeasures if Harry does anything. This greatly increases the probability of at least one of them thinking outside the extremely narrow AK box.
That’s still of limited use from a social capital perspective. Harry will have a devil of a time getting the remaining Light champions to align behind him if his first public recruits are Death Eaters. (and if they’re not public recruits, then the whole “spread the word” element fails and there’s no reason for the public to believe that Voldemort came back and was defeated again)