DADA: Unspeakable Profilers

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Hello DADA Experts!

After Voldemort's rise and fall, the wizarding world wanted to make sure that no wizard would become as bad as Voldy did! One of the ways that Minister Shacklebolt has decided to stop another wizard from getting this powerful and evil, has been to start the division of Unspeakables that job is to profile wizards (like the BAU). You are hired to this division.


Details
I will post some of the known Dark Arts Death Eaters and your job is to reply to the post their psychological profile of the character and backgrounds of why they became active in the Dark Arts. If you think of anyone that I have left off the list, then feel free to post their name. Please make your profiles at least 150 words long. Also be respectful but you can disagree with other people profiles just put it in your Profile report.

Points
10 point for first submission
2 points per additional submission
10 points for bonus items

Deadline
11:59 pm UTC (7:59 pm EDT) on Friday, July 30, 2010

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Tom Riddle

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Tom came from a troubled family. He was conceived by magic through a love potion, so he was never truly loved. His mother died in child birth and he never met his father, who had no wish to know him. He felt isolated with no one to talk to about his powers. The the orphanage everyone kept a distinct distance from him. They thought he was strange. This made Tom resentful of people in general. When he got angry, odd things happened. Fires started around him frequently. Eventually he realised that he was responsible and became able to control it. Control was something he had never had before. People had always made the decisions for him. Now here was something he controlled. He wanted to know more, and when he went to Hogwarts learnt as much as he could. But he didn't like the constraints. You couldn't do this with magic and you couldn't do that. Tom didn't want to be bossed around any more. He was going to do things his way. It led him down a slippery path. The lure of being able to do what he liked got to him and he eventually lost all care about others. He just wanted power.

Bryony/Slytherin.

Re: Tom Riddle

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I would like to begin my profile by noting that Tom Riddle is not actually a Death Eater. Death Eaters are servants of Lord Voldemort, and Tom Riddle is Lord Voldemort, so he can’t be his own servant, so I’m going to focus on what led Tom Riddle to become Lord Voldemort.

Tom Riddle has been ostracized since youth. His father abandoned him when he was still in the womb, his mother abandoned him by dying upon his birth, and because of this he would not allow others to get close to him for fear of being left again, but still longing to be accepted. His continuous rejection caused by him pushing everyone away made him bitter towards others and made him feel as if he needed to prove that he was above all those who rejected him. He showed his dominance over his father by killing him. He showed that he was better than his mother by trying to find a way to defeat death through the use of horucruxes, which I believe led to the true transformation of Tom Riddle to Lord Voldemort.

Meghan//Gryffindor

Regulus Black

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This is where your believes crash with your expectations or the expectations of others. Nothing is what it seemed to be and it frightens you.
Regulus came from a respectful pureblood family and of course he learned which wizards are "good" and which are "bad" at a very young age. I blame his family, your family is where you learn about the ways of life, the socialization and that accompanies you wherever you go.
His family and their believes poisoned his mind and made him completely confused about everything, he didn't want to disappoint his family and he didn't even know what could be awaiting for him, when he joined Death Eaters.
He became active in the Dark Arts, because he found them interesting and intriguing, he grew up thinking that there was nothing wrong with that and all of this comes completely from his childhood and his will to impress and make his parents proud.
Of course when he saw what was really happening and what the DE were supposed to do, he panicked, he has never expected this and I don't really see him as a type who should be on the record as the one of the dangerous wizards, I don't think he ever meant any harm, he was just blinded and how can he be a threat to the wizarding world when he is dead, not to mention he died for such a noble cause (that idiot), he should have a picture in the Ministry for what he has done, he shouldn't be on the profile.

Victoria//Slytherin

Re: Regulus Black

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Regulus Black was raised in an environment in which he was taught that the values of the Death Eaters were good. After seeing how his brother was treated by his choice to betray his parent’s ideals, Regulus just wanted to make his parents happy and decided to be their ideal son. He is a pleaser. He wanted to please his parents and then he wanted to please his Slytherin companions who he was forced to spend time with due to being Sorted into that house, likely by his choice and because he wished to please his parents and not necessarily because the Sorting Hat believed he fit fully into the Slytherin house. Once put into the Slytherin environment where so many were already Death Eaters or Death Eaters in training, Regulus could only join the cause as well. He did, however with age and experience, realize the wrongs of the Death Eaters and in the end chose to betray Lord Voldemort at the cost of his own life.

Meghan//Gryffindor

Alecteo and/or Amycus Carrow

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Alecto and Amycus Carrow are secretly in love with one another and the frustration at not being able to be together because they are brother and sister caused them to find a different way in which they can take out their passions, in particular the torturing of Muggles and anyone else they perceive as less than/weaker than them. They feel the need to assert their dominance so as to prove there is nothing wrong with them.

Alecto’s declaration that muggles are “filthy like animals” is obviously an attempt to push her own feelings of herself onto another group of people. She feels that her incestuous love for her brother lowers her to an animal-like status, and it is only through destroying others that she is able to feel better about herself.

Neither Alecto or Amycus are 100% loyal to Voldemort as they didn’t search for him after his destruction. They have a sense of self-preservation similar to that of Lucius Malfoy.

Meghan//Gryffindor

Re: Alecteo and/or Amycus Carrow

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Though from a family known for its intelligence and longstanding pureblood tradition, neither Alecteo or Amycus show great prowess when it comes to matters of the mind. This is thought to be the result of unfortunate inbreeding going back several generations, caused by the famous tradition that the Carrows have been so revered for. Their great-grandparents are rumored to have been brother and sister - both so determined to receive the family fortune that they married. It is unknown the nature of the following generation's marriages, though it is assumed that they were to people outside the family for the Alecteo and Amycus' parents are definitely cousins.

This level of intertwined genetics easily led to the many problems seen in the brother and sister - notably the slight physical deformity of Amycus' lopsided face and squat appearance. They most likely followed He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named due to a lack of proper reasoning abilities. It is suspected that, although they seem high functioning, that they both have the mentality of seven year olds. Their penchant for torturing is most likely because they see it as a game and their rage filled countenances from frustration when one of their 'toys' stops playing.

Sam//Gryffindor

Crabbe (father or son)

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Crabbe Junior was raised mainly by his father who instead of reading him bedtime stories would tell him stories of the murders and tortures and other atrocities he committed during his years as a Death Eater. Crabbe grew up seeing how the Malfoys looked down upon his family and especially the relationship between his father and Lucius Malfoy. Crabbe realized that this was how he was expected to act around Draco Malfoy, but like any true Slytherin had ambitions for more than that. He saw the Death Eaters as a way to overshadow the Malfoys and bring his family name much honour. Biding his time, when the Malfoys were disgraced in the eyes of Lord Voldemort he took that as his chance to prove that the Crabbes had always been superior to the Malfoys. All he really wanted was for his father to be proud of him and for the wizarding world to see them as more than lackeys.

Meghan//Gryffindor

Goyle (father or son)

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Gregory Goyle, Jr. (classmate of Draco Malfoy and son of Gregory Goyle, Sr.) suffers primarily from co-dependency; he refuses to act or even think for himself. Instead, he is almost never seen except as a hanger-on of Draco Malfoy. Even his choice to hang around Draco wasn't his own decision; instead, he was strongly encouraged to do so by his father (who had done the same with Draco's father Lucius back in his own school days). This co-dependence clearly weakens his character and was disappointing, especially to the Sorting Hat (which had recognized ambition and potential for greatness hidden under the thick shell of co-dependency).

Given all of that, it is obvious why Gregory Goyle, Jr. joined the Death Eaters as soon as humanly possible: when Lord Voldemort came back from the dead, Gregory Goyle, Sr. repeatedly pressured his son to join him on that path (after all, Gregory Goyle, Sr. had been an original Death Eater). Further, when Draco Malfoy began working for Voldemort, he would naturally need his hangers-on (including Gregory Goyle, Jr.) to do the same!

William//Slytherin

Barty Crouch, Jr.

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Barty Crouch Junior had a hard and long childhood. His father was never around when he was growing up, and when he was he treated his son rather poorly. Barty Junior grew to hate his namesake because of the way his father acted toward him. He never saw Barty Crouch Junior as a son, but as an equal. He expected his son to accomplish all that he had in a fraction of the time – standards that Barty Junior could never live up to. As an adult he is now angry with no way to let it out and independent because every person he’s ever tried to rely on has been disappointed in him. He’s almost to the point of terrified of rejection and he will not respond well to authoritative figures, seeing as his father is a rather big one. If you are going to be approaching him, do so cautiously and act as his inferior. It will be safer for you and more comfortable for him. Barty Crouch Junior is dangerous, no doubt. Always be alert when around him.
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Katey//Hufflpeff

Fenrir Greyback

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Though it is documented that werewolves can usually retain some modicum of humanity when not transformed, Fenrir is an extreme case where the beast fully takes over the psyche. My consulting expert has stated that this is more likely to have been caused by the personality that Fenrir had before he was bitten, and less of an attribute of the affliction of lycanism. Following this line of thought, Fenrir is assumed to have been a narcissistic sadist in his early years, believing that he was very powerful and that causing others to feel pain was the way to gain their respect. I believe this is from a childhood filled with abuse suffered at the hands of his father. It is documented that Greyback Sr. was a man of very high prestige and social standing before he mysteriously went missing approximately 30 years ago - conveniently around the time that Fenrir is supposed to have been bitten and subsequently infected.

Though widely known to intentionally be in areas of large populations on the night of the full moon and then wreaking random chaos, he has shown capable of high levels of planning in certain attacks (see file: Lupin, Remus J, subsection - Adolescence). Unlike many documented sociopaths, he has grown to be more organized and has shown absolutely no signs of devolving psychologically. Subject will be kept for further testing and observation until 2018, when his full 20 year sentence will be up, afterwhich he will be euthanized as per ruling by the wizengamot.

Sam//Gryffindor

Igor Karkaoff

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Bellatrix Lestrange

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Belletrix is a classic example of someone suffering a psychotic break. She had frequent delusions, mood swings, and could quickly turn violent in response to stress. There is also the possibly that Belletrix had some undiagnosed schizophrenia, given her loose grip on reality, her paranoia, and her disorganized thinking.

Her condition and mental function would have been exacerbated by Voldemort's frequent use of the Cruciatus curse as a form of punishment. Basically, Belletrix would have disorganized thoughts, Voldemort would punish her, which would cause her to crack even more.

Belletrix's relationship with Voldemort could be classified as an eroticmanic fixation as well. This combined with the schizophrenia and in the midst of a psychotic break explains her frequent mood swings, her paranoia that someone is always out to get her "Master," and her violent reactions to any perceived threat to the object of her desires.

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Re: Bellatrix Lestrange

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I thought of you when making this activity. :)

Re: Bellatrix Lestrange

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Bellatrix Lestrange is a mission-based killer; however, she is different from the usual classification in that mission-based killers are rarely psychotic. The problem that we face here has to do with her stay in Azkaban, which certainly would have acerbated any prior psychiatric conditions, whether they were underlying or were in plain view. She appears fully in control of herself in the images we've seen in the Pensieve, but that was only a short while.

Given what we have seen of the way pureblood families operate, we can surmise that as a young woman, Bellatrix was expected to do nothing more than to marry and have children that would continue the existence of pureblooded wizards, much like her younger sister Narcissa. As a female child, she would have only had the chance to inherit any of the Black family’s titles and possessions if the male line died out. This existence would not have been neither a very happy one nor one a comfortable one for the likes of Bellatrix. This lack of power within her personal life has translated into her professional (if we presume to think of being a Death Eater as a profession), chosen life, wherein it appears that there is only one who holds power over her - Lord Voldemort. Her own husband appears to be of minor use, barely mentioned, and could simply be there due to the marriage being contrived by others.

I would say that Bellatrix Lestrange is a sadist in the truest form of the word, given the pleasure that she takes in the torture of others, in the power she holds over them, and might well have some hybristophiliac tendencies, given her relationship with Lord Voldemort.

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Draco Malfoy

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Draco Malfoy, son of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, comes from a long line of dark wizards and is confirmed to be the youngest Death Eater there ever was. His status as Death Eater, however, is often regarded as a payment made to Voldemort because of Lucius's Malfoy failing standards as a Death Eater. His sixth year at Hogwarts (his first as a Death Eater), he was given the task of murdering Albus Dumbledore. While unsuccessful, he did give several renowned Death Eaters entrance into Hogwarts by way of a Vanishing Cabinet pair, proving himself to be of some use as a Death Eater by showing his cunning. During the Great War at Hogwarts, Draco proved himself to not be capable of destroying Harry and his friends, which he knew was the real thing standing between Voldemort and the world. Deep down, he realizes that he would much rather have a world not being ruled by Voldemort, a view that has also been reflected in his parents' attitude as Voldemort's reign grew for the second time.

Draco does not pose much of a threat as long as he not being controlled by someone more powerful than him. A relatively clever wizard, he will not seek to create a lasting or dangerous feud, but is very malleable and will often seek to please his superiors, often to a fault.

Claire//Hufflepuff

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Draco Malfoy is more a victim of situations than anything else. His parents are both incredibly steeped in the Dark Arts; this is how he has grown up. He was raised to believe that Pureblooded wizards are better than all others and that "Mudbloods" and Muggles are of an inferior race. He was corrupted at an age where he could not help but believe what he was hearing. He never had any influence in his first 11 years of life, years that are quite influential in determining the development of a person's personality.

Draco's involvement in the Dark arts branches out of a feeling of helplessness. His father, a follower of Voldemort, has failed in his mission and Draco's mission is the means of punishment for this mistake. As Voldemort threatens him and his family, Draco sees no choice but to follow his commands and attempt to kill Dumbledore. When it comes down to it, Draco cannot, because he is not really evil. He is simply a lost child trying to find his way and doing the only thing he thinks he can. He is able to break from the influence of his parents on his young mind and (we are led to believe) becomes at least a half-decent person later in life.

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Lucius Malfoy

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Lucius Malfoy, generally a ruthless, aristocratic snob, who has an extreme dislike of muggles and half bloods. He is arrogant, selfish and concerned with his reputation and family’s social standing. His ruthlessness is shown when he dispassionately utilised eleven-year old Ginny Weasley in an attempt to both discredit her father in the Ministry, and remove Albus Dumbledore from his position as Headmaster of Hogwarts. This attempt would have resulted in her death, had Harry Potter not intervened.

But he cares greatly for his wife and son and he demonstrates that he has great expectations for his son and was a demanding father. When Lucius displeases Voldemort, the Dark Lord charges Draco with the task of killing Dumbledore as an indirect attack on Lucius.

In the end, he demonstrates that his Family is more important to him than serving Voldemort and due to this, he is seen like a coward by some of his fellow Death Eaters.

Word count: 156

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Re: Lucius Malfoy

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Lucius Malfoy, a powerful and wealthy man, has always sought ways of distinguishing himself from the crowd. From a young age he was taught the importance of his pureblood status and this essential focus on his own kind eventually led him to the Knights of Walpurgis, or Death Eaters as they became known later on. He was never fond of muggles and did not understand Wizards like the Weasley family who seemed to go out of their way to bring shame upon the Wizarding kind. Lucius believes that wizards should stand proud and that they should not be afraid of showing their true power and superiority. This ingrained racist view, coupled with a feeling of utter superiority over others, including muggles and most wizards, led Lucius to believe that Voldemort had the right idea about wielding power and using it to create a new, purer society of wizards, a society in which Lucius saw himself, along with his family. Although he cares deeply for his wife and son, the importance he places on his status has always been more important to him.

Eve//Slytherin

Peter Pettigrew

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Peter Pettigrew was always a step behind his peers. Even his within his circle of friends he was always the last to catch on, never quite cool enough to really belong, and definitely at the bottom of the pecking order. No matter how much he tried, he could never be the best at anything and after leaving school, it became very apparent just how much he was the odd one out, even among his pals. They all went off in their own individual directions and found great success in all of their pursuits. Peter, having barely completed his studies at Hogwarts, was insanely jealous. Although he cared deeply for his friends, he wished that just for once he could be the one that got everything he wanted. He thirsted for a way to be the alpha of the group to be the one with all the power.

This made it very easy for Voldemort to enlist Peter into his service. It was easy for him to use Peter's shame at not being as adept as his peers and his frustration over being cast aside so often to his advantage. The allure of power, of firmly belonging among the Death Eaters, and being what amounted to essentially a General in the Dark Lord's army, was so appealing to Peter that he was much more likely to give up his friends in pursuit of greatness. And once he agreed, it was too late. He succumbed to the Dark Arts rather quickly - all that stuff about power corrupting, allusions in classic literature and film about how engaging in dark practices turns your soul dark - and the Peter his friends knew was gone, only to be replaced by a shell of a man who, although still socially awkward and lacking somewhat in the areas of skill, wanted nothing more than to serve his new master and ensure the security of his place as high in the pecking order as possible.

Curtis//Ravenclaw

Severus Snape

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Severus Snape appears to have had an abusive father and a neglectful mother. At age 9, he is shown to have poor hygiene, clothes, and nutrition. When he went to school, he protected himself from his peers, who in general ridiculed him, with magic (specifically curses). He is on the offensive at school and insists he is not a coward. He is drawn to the Dark Arts because of the power it would offer him over his enemies (and probably within the heirarchy of the Slytherin house). He holds off as long as he does from succumbing to its lure because of his love for Lily Evans. When she does not forgive him for calling her a Mudblood, he becomes more deeply entrenched in the Dark Arts with his Slytherin friends who have similar interests. Voldemort and his Death Eaters used the knowledge of the Dark Arts that appealed to Severus' intellect and ambition. Thoughts of revenge against James Potter were also probably a factor in his joining the Death Eaters.

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Antonin Dolohov

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Whew! First one for him. Although this was hard XD

He is considered highly dangerous, with crimes ranging from the murdering of innocent people to the slaughter of members of the Order of the Phoenix. He was sentenced to Azkaban, however, due to Voldemort's return, had since escaped, only to be incarcerated once again. The severity of his crimes can be seen from the First Wizarding War (where he assisted in brutally murdering Fabian and Gideon Prewett, both members of the Order of the Phoenix), the Second Wizarding War (where he attacked Hogwarts students with motive to kill them; where he murdered Remus Lupin with an unknown curse).
His personal motives for joining the Dark Lord is unclear, however it is understood that as a student at Hogwarts, he was on friendly terms with Voldemort, formerly known as Tom Riddle.
Family history is unknown. Upbringing is unknown. His current whereabouts are unknown. Whether he is dead or alive is unknown. No other information is available.

Bess//Gryffindor