He's shut down compassion- how else would you become a Death Eater?

His followers, the Death Eaters, call him by this title.

This is rare for a Death Eater, as remarked in the last book.

It holds most of the Death Eaters in prison.

In the sixth book, he becomes a Death Eater.

Death Eaters appear and disappear in black smoke, Order members in white.

As a spell it is cast by a Death Eater whenever he or she has murdered someone.

The Death Eaters have also attacked pure-bloods who oppose them.

The following characters are Death Eaters identified by name during the series, and the crimes they committed.

He joins the Death Eaters at the age of sixteen but later has a change of heart.