Voldemort was sick and tired of his minions' incompetence. It was a simple assignment, yet the attack on Diagon Alley had been a complete failure. The first sign of the attack going downhill was when Crabbe and Goyle wandered off to find a chocolate shop and Malfoy slipped into Borgins and Burkes to buy some illegal artifacts. Then Travers acted like a complete idiot by firing a Cruciatus curse at Rowle. And he didn't even want to get into the other setbacks.
That was how the Death Eaters wound up being summoned to the Malfoy Manor. "It has come to my attention," the Dark Lord hissed, "that my Death Eaters are having trouble working together and following simple orders. Such as Travers."
Travers defensively said, "I thought it was Weasley!"
"Fool! Crucio!" Travers writhed on the ground in pain.
"Ickle Travers doesn't know his colors does he?" Bellatrix teased. "He can't tell the difference between bald and red!" Bellatrix cackled.
"Silence," the Dark Lord commanded. "I have decided that you will do teambuilding exercises–or face the consequences."
The first teambuilding activity was the trust fall. Crabbe and Goyle were partners, and quite predictably each of them fell backwards while the other one stood there with a dumb expression on his face. The Carrows seemed to have passed the exercise until Amycus dropped Alecto. This resulted in a duel. Pettigrew was too scared of Bellatrix to catch her, and Bellatrix cackled merrily as Pettigrew fell repeatedly on his back before realizing she wasn't trying to catch him. Malfoy and Nott were the only group to perform the trust fall correctly.
Next came the three-legged race. The Death Eaters switched partners. The majority of the groups managed to make it to the finish line despite the frequent falls. Gibbon collapsed due to exhaustion just before he reached the finish line because he was dragging Pettigrew the whole way. Bellatrix shrieked, "Now it's a three-legged race!" as she cut off her partner's leg with the severing curse. To her credit, she did manage to drag the corpse across the finish line.
After Pettigrew hastily mopped up the trail of blood Bellatrix had left in her wake, it was time for the minefield activity. Voldemort set a series of traps in front of the Death Eaters, and the blindfolded minions wandered around the room being ordered where to go. Bellatrix quickly became notorious for guiding her partners into traps, and when she approached Pettigrew he ran away shrieking–into stink sap.
The final teamwork activity to write a story using pictures–each not knowing what the others drew. The Death Eaters quickly drew their pictures. Pettigrew started off the story with a stick figure with a big nose. "If that's me I will torture you Pettigrew," growled Malfoy.
"It was supposed to be Snape," Pettigrew supplied hesitantly. Snape gave Pettigrew his famous glare that made the Hogwarts students flee from fright.
Crabbe followed up with a picture of a cupcake. Malfoy had a drawing of a stick figure with x's over its eyes. "It was a poisoned cupcake," Malfoy explained. Rowle held up a picture of Harry Potter, Gibbon a picture scissors, and Amycus Carrow supplied a picture of Hogwarts. Bellatrix, who had a multitude of tortured and dead people, completed the story. Voldemort was satisfied, as the Death Eaters were now ready for their raid on Hogsmeade; and the Death Eaters were glad the teambuilding activities were over.
All the Death Eaters burst into tears, with the exception of Bellatrix, when their raid failed and they were forced once again to face the horrors of teambuilding exercises.
The Death Eaters sung the Dark Lord praises after he reinstated torture as the new punishment for failure.