Hey everyone,
Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory.
Today, we’re going to be discussing the Death Eaters, specifically, what happened
to them AFTER the second wizarding war.
After the Battle of Hogwarts, there was only one thing that mattered: Lord Voldemort was
dead.
And with his end, the wizarding world was finally free from the terror that shook it
to its core for the past few decades.
But killing Voldemort didn’t solve every problem that Harry Potter and his wizarding
friends faced.
Because there were still plenty of Death Eaters alive and well.
And nobody knows what exactly came of them…
Today, we’re going to take a look at a handful of the most dangerous Death Eaters from the
Battle of Hogwarts, and try our best to figure out where they ended up.
Amycus Carrow
When Lord Voldemort led the coup against the Ministry of Magic, he used his new found power
to install his agents in positions of power across the wizarding world.
One of these agents was Amycus Carrow, a prominent dark wizard who had once fought alongside
the Dark Lord during the First Wizarding War in the late 70’s.
Like Lucious Malfoy, and many other Death Eaters who survived the first war, Amycus
didn’t spend his days searching for his master, Lord Voldemort, in defeat.
Instead, he simply passed the years hiding in the shadows, alongside his sister, Alecto.
It wasn’t until Lord Voldemort regained a proper physical body, thanks to Peter Pettigrew’s
potion, that Carrow came back to the fold.
After which, Amycus re-joined the Death EAters in their reign of terror across Britian, eventually
culminating in Carrow’s appointment as professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts.
But in the aftermath of the final Battle there, when Voldemort was killed by Harry Potter,
where did Carrow end up?
Conventional wisdom would point to Azkaban.
Just like the Death Eaters from the first Wizarding War, the dark wizards from this
conflict were being sent back to that wizarding prison to serve life-sentences.
But what if Carrow got away?
Amycus was born into a wealthy, and high esteemed, pure blood family.
If he could only put a bit of space between himself and the Ministry’s aurors, he surely
had the means to escape.
If, somehow, he managed to escape from Ravenclaw Tower, where he was tied up during the Battle
of Hogwarts, Amycus could have slipped away, never to be heard from again.
Especially if he had the help of his sister…
Alecto Carrow
Alecto Carrow was Amycus’s sister, and shared a similar fate.
Just like her brother, Alecto was one of the most important Death Eaters during Voldemort’s
campaigns in the second wizarding war.
As the Dark Lord slowly eroded away the Ministry of Magic’s legal powers, Alecto carried
out missions to keep the rest of the British wizarding world too afraid to fight back.
Eventually, she earned herself a professorship at Hogwarts, under the direction of its new
headmaster, Severus Snape.
But after a tumultuous career there, Alecto’s tenure ended with the Battle of Hogwarts.
Along with her brother, she was bound in Ravenclaw Tower.
Since she didn’t partake in any of the famous showdowns in the lower chambers of the castle,
there was a small sliver of time that Alecto could have escaped.
With Amycus at her side, it wouldn’t take much for the dark witch to navigate above
the ruins of Hogwarts, and find a route.
Perhaps they would’ve chartered a course through the Forbidden Forest, and found the
train tracks that looped around the woods.
That would’ve put the siblings on a path directly for Voldemort’s camp, though, and
they would have undoubtedly joined their master in his final siege of the grounds.
But if they managed to avoid him, it’s unlikely that the Ministry or its aurors could have
done much to prevent the Carrows from living the rest of their lives with new identities.
Augustus Rookwood
Augustus Rookwood was one of Voldemort’s most formidable allies, and by the time of
the Second Wizarding War, one of his oldest.
Rookwood served a unique role within the rank of the Death Eaters: he was a mole within
the Ministry of Magic.
Of course, for Voldemort to succeed in his campaigns against his fellow wizards, he needed
to lure many influential ministry workers to his cause.
But Augustus was special, because he worked in the Department of Mysteries, the very place
that held the secrets of thought, love, time… and death.
The latter was a concept that Voldemort could never really grasp, and by Albus Dumbledore’s
own declaration, it was the one thing that Voldemort feared above all.
It’s not hard to imagine that Augustus’s position as an Unspeakable in the Ministry
of Magic was one of Voldemort’s most prized acquisitions.
And, perhaps, Augustus’s research contributed to Voldemort’s own resurrection.
During the Battle of Hogwarts, Augustus met his match when he took on Albus Dumbledore’s
younger brother, Aberforth.
Augustus was stunned in the confrontation, and just like the CArrow siblings, his story
ends there.
Most assumed he died or was quickly ferried off to Azkaban, but what if he wasn’t?
We already know a lot about Augustus’s past.
As an Unspeakable, he had access to ancient, arcane knowledge, and cutting-edge research.
Besides helping Voldemort get his hands on the prophecy of Harry Potter, Augustus…
as we mentioned earlier… might have learned much more.
If Rookwood were able to somehow avoid the trip to Azkaban, he could have slipped away,
just like Death Eater sympathizers who continued their mundane lives in the aftermath of the
Battle.
But unlike those others, Augustus might have continued to fight for the cause… and more…
continued his research.
By their very nature, the Unspeakables were a mystery.
But even though we don’t know much about their job, and the unique magical talents
they possessed, we can be certain that Rookwood had knowledge of not only the Death Chamber,
but the Time Chamber as well.
At least, during his time working at the Ministry of Magic.
If he managed to escape, it wouldn’t be too far-fetched to imagine him alone, trying
to recreate a new stock of time-turners, like the ones destroyed during the Battle of the
Department of Mysteries.
If he were ever able to make one, perhaps he would’ve gone back in time, and prevented
Voldemort from attempting to kill Harry Potter in the first place… like the Dark Lord's
own daughter, Delphi, would eventually do, in the Cursed Child.
Fenrir Greyback
Fenrir Greyback might seem like a run of the mill Death Eater, but he actually wasn’t.
He worked closely with Voldemort, and his dark wizards, but Fenrir actually wasn’t
officially part of the crew.
Instead, the werewolf allied himself with Voldemort because they shared a common goal:
overthrowing the existing power structure in the wizarding world.
Fenrir, just like Tom Riddle, had a problem with wizards.
They held a prejudice against werewolves, and treated those infected with lycanthropy
as a type of vermin that terrorized their communities.
Fenrir was not only offended by that ideology, but enraged, and he made it his personal goal
to infect as many wizards with lycanthropy as possible, so that he could create an army
large enough to undo the ministry of magic.
But that all came to a halt during the Battle of Hogwarts.
There, Ron Weasley and Neville Longbottom beat Fenrir.
And in the aftermath, it’s likely that the werewolf was bound in magical chains, and
escorted into a cell in Azkaban… if he wasn’t killed in the battle.
But…
What if Fenrir survived, too?
By the end of the battle, his legion of werewolf converts would have been decimated.
Dumbledore’s Army would have made sure of that.
So Fenrir would need to rebuild.
But he couldn’t go about it as brazenly as he had during Voldemort’s rise to power.
Now, Fenrir needed to revert back to the shadows, and live his life in secrecy.
If he was smart, Fenrir would have avoided the entire wizarding community altogether.
Which meant that, in order to grow his wereworld army, Greyback would need to do the very thing
he despised: hunt Muggles.
Fenrir might have stayed in England, in order to achieve his goals.
But with the magical community strengthening under Harry Potter’s victory, it would only
be a matter of time before wizards and witches started to notice a surge in Muggle-born werewolves.
If Fenrir was smart, then he would flee the country, and charter a course towards a more
unstable part of the world.
Perhaps that would lead Greyback into the East, to the rural towns that dotted the old
Soviet bloc, or maybe farther, to the war-stricken steppes of Chechnya.
There, Fenrir could hunt to his heart’s content.
But unlike wizards and witches, which were his typical victims, he needed to be much
more careful with Muggles.
Without magic at their side, the Muggles needed to depend on modern medicine to heal themselves,
and it wasn’t always up to repairing werewolf maulings.
If Fenrir were able to build a true army of werewolves, with thousands and thousands of
members, it’s likely he would have turned his sights back on the Ministry of Magic in
England.
As we know, his goals were aligned with Voldemort: bringing about a new order.
While the 2nd Wizarding War devastated the wizarding community, perhaps Fenrir’s new
one… the werewolf rebellion…
could have been even worse.
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