Binns had read every other project this year before he started reading it, he had wanted to concentrate on this one.

A third year.

That was all the ghost thought after he had read the project.

Something like this should have come from somebody doing their history NEWT, not a small third year.

After reading it he made copys and gave it to friends in the history department of the ministry for reading.

They all reacted the same. They thought he joked when he told them the age of the writer.

And with hearing his surname they were even more irritated.
In the complete work the interaction of Harry Potter and Severus Snape was done as minimal as was tolerable and as neutral as possible. While it could be done it was unexpected.

Especially when it was done by the son of Harry Potter.

Binns ignored this, at least somebody was capable of focussing on what they really wanted to write about.

The recruiting of the Death Eaters was done in 4 different Steps.

- identifying potential recruits

- finding arguments or weak points

- ensnaring the victim

- binding him/her

The arguments and the ensnaring of the recruit depended on the person and the recruiter.

While some recruits fell for the idea of pureblood surpremacy, others were recruited through their hate against everybody else, the promise of letting their natures free reign (read: lust in killing and/or sadism), the promise of knowledge, the promise of personal power or whatever else fitted to the recruit.

The Death Eaters were sorted in 3 categories.

The Inner Cirle, the most influental and smallest group. They were the real enforcers of Voldemorts rule, the biggest supporters and all chosen for their individual talent and ruthlessness. At the best times the Inner Circle hat 21 to 22 members.

The next group were the normal Death Eaters. They were marked with the Dark Mark as the Inner Circle but had no real Power and did menial work. They just worked for Voldemort or a member of the Inner Circle.

It is known that Voldemort sent Death Eaters in need of punishment to Bellatrix Lestrange when he didn't have the time or wasn't in the mood to handle them himself.

This changed in the second Voldemort war dramatically.

The Third group weren't Death Eaters in the sense that they didn't have Dark Marks. They supported the idea, gave money, political power or otherwise contributed to the effort but didn't do anything directly. They were the biggest group and a lot of them are still out there, not having been outed in the years from the war to know.

The ghost floated before the portrait of Wenning-Thorne. The corpulent man had the book in his painted hand Binns was talking about.

There were painters that were willing to paint little things to give the portraits something to do. And every book that were ever written could be duplicated in a portrait just with writing the title and author. Nobody knew exactly how that worked but magic was like that.

The ghost and the portrait had been friends since before Binns death. Most of the times they had the same opinions regarding their mutual passion history but sometimes they just agreed to disagree. Now was not one of this times.

"This certainly doesn't sound like coming from a third year at all. I was in my portrait in the history department and they were really interested.

There is a lot of information in this that nobody ever knew about the Death Eaters."

A see-through nod. "I understand that nobody thought to ask before. Concerning Mr Potter, I want to talk to him. He has a very interesting way of presenting his information and is interested in the subject. Perhaps he would be willing to work as a history teaching assistant when he is older."

Both formerly living knew that teaching assistent was a way of sucking a pupil into the field of the respective teacher and goading them into an apprenticeship.

It worked well.

Wenning-Thorne would have something to tell when he was back in the portraits room with the unspeakables.