When I heard what had happened, I was furious with everybody involved, not least myself. Thanks to Harry, we'd been led right down the primrose path, and had the Order of the Phoenix not turned up in the nick-of, we'd probably have all ended up dead. I'm not sure why the Death Munchers didn't use more lethal spells; the only explanation I have is that they, like the centaurs, hesitated because of our youth. One may, after all, be a devoted pureblood-rule fanatic, certain that Voldemort represents the wave of the future, and still be hesitant to kill "children."