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I read the translated copy first. I simply had been thinking it means people who eat corpse! It really killed my appetite but it seemed so, at least literally.

But then I couldn't wait for the translated copy of DH, so I read the original one. Then I have another idea of Death Eater. It doesn't just mean the people who followed the dark lord (and sure not people who eat corpse). but it means people who wanted to fight death and beat death.

This is the most important thing that Voldemort really want to defeat.

What do you guys think?

Posts: 17948 · Posted: March 5, 2008 10:51 am Post subject:

erm...........the eating of death? Confused

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Posts: 25604 · Posted: March 5, 2008 11:35 am Post subject:

Perhaps the word "eater" shouldn't be taken so literally. I looked up the definition and came up with this...

transitive verb
1: to take in through the mouth as food : ingest, chew, and swallow in turn
2 a: to destroy, consume, or waste by or as if by eating <expenses ate up the profits> <gadgets that eat up too much space> b: to bear the expense of : take a loss on <the team was forced to eat the rest of his contract>
3 a: to consume gradually : corrode <cars eaten away by rust> b: to consume with vexation : bother <what's eating you now>
4: to enjoy eagerly or avidly : lap —used with up<it was an amazing performance and the crowd ate it up>
5usually vulgar : to perform fellatio or cunnilingus on —often used with out
intransitive verb
1: to take food or a meal
2: to affect something by gradual destruction or consumption —usually used with into, away, or at<the loss was really eating at her><the controversy ate into his support>
— eat·er noun
— eat alive: to defeat, conquer, or overwhelm completely : crush <was eaten alive by the competition>
— eat one out of house and home : to consume more than one can easily provide or afford
— eat one's heart out
1: to grieve bitterly
2: to be jealous
— eat one's words : to retract what one has said
— eat out of one's hand : to accept the domination of another
— eat someone's lunch : to deprive of profit, dominance, or success

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eat

As you can see, eating doesn't necassarily have to do with food.
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Posts: 17948 · Posted: March 5, 2008 11:41 am Post subject:

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I think that it means people who want to destroy (eat) death. Tom Riddle/Voldy thought that he could conquer death, but he became so obsesses that it destroyed him.
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Posts: 17948 · Posted: March 5, 2008 12:41 pm Post subject:

^ good theory, since voldy named them that
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Posts: 3429 · Posted: March 5, 2008 2:04 pm Post subject:

i thought it was someone who was not bound by death.
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Eaters of Death, I think. According to author J.K. Rowling, the original working title for the Death Eaters was "The Knights of Walpurgis".
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Posts: 731 · Posted: March 11, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject:

I agree that it probably means, fighting death or destroying death.
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Myabe Jo chose eater because it has so many definitions. Maybe death eaters represent all of the logical definitions.
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