The fact that we knew enough Death Eaters beforehand to populate Book 7’s pages is really a testament to how well done the slow buildup of their roster was over the three preceding books. But that is not definitive enough to say with any certainty that Selwyn was there. (Additionally, Harry mentions Crabbe and Goyle being lonely without Draco, and it seems implausible that he wouldn’t mention that Goyle is extra bummed because his father was just carted off to Azkaban.) A small point in favor of Selwyn being the elusive combatant is that Selwyn is paired with Travers at Xeno Lovegood’s house, so perhaps they are also paired as the mystery Death Eaters at the Battle of the Tower. to actively invade the school where his son is a student in case the mission goes south. The only other possibility is Goyle, Sr., and it would be unwise for Goyle, Sr. All the other named Death Eaters are accounted for (usually by virtue of being locked up in Azkaban). On the topic of Selwyn… Of all the named Death Eaters in the series, he is the only one who’s a likely candidate for the other mystery Death Eater at the Battle of the Tower. But only one wholly new Death Eater is introduced in Deathly Hallows: Selwyn.
The Death Eaters who were at the Battle of the Tower finally receive names, several Imperiused wizards find themselves dueling for Voldemort, and we finally meet the fabled Travers in person. However, by this point in the series, Jo had done a lot of buildup of the Death Eaters’ ranks. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the paradigm shifts: With Voldemort having a lot more legroom in the wake of Dumbledore’s death, we are suddenly running into Death Eaters all the time – alone at the Ministry and Gringotts, in pairs during skirmishes at Tottenham Court Road and Xenophilius Lovegood’s house, and in large groups at various battles. Over the last few essays, we’ve explored the Death Eaters in moments when there are limited numbers of them – a dozen in the Department of Mysteries, exactly ten breaking out of Azkaban, at least ten on the Astronomy Tower, and either a dozen-odd or 30 Death Eaters at Voldemort’s resurrection.
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This is the fifth part of a series about the Death Eaters – here’s Part 1 if you’d like to start from the beginning.
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