Well, as we explained it — Death Eaters cannot actually fly. Their leader, Lord Voldemort, learned the trick and so did Severus Snape, but no other Death Eater is skilled enough to fly without the use of a broom or some other magical object. We assume that most people got confused after watching the movies. Namely, in the movies — it really does seem like all Death Eaters can fly, instead of just Voldemort who demonstrated this skill during the Battle of the Seven Potters.
Namely, the Death Eaters actually Apparate and that is a completely different form of magic. It allows people to travel from one place to the other, but it is not like flying, more like teleportation. But, what happened was that the filmmakers decided to approach the Apparition process rather freely, making it visually seem like the Death Eaters were actually flying.
Although a similar technique was used in the fifth movie, when the Order appeared in the Ministry, but it was more prominent in scenes featuring the Death Eaters, where the filmmakers visually reinvented the scene. In the books, the Apparition of Death Eaters was described as follows:. Between graves, behind the yew tree, in every shadowy space, wizards were Apparating. All of them were hooded and masked. And one by one they moved forwards … slowly, cautiously, as though they could hardly believe their eyes.
Voldemort stood in silence, waiting for them. Then one of the Death Eaters fell to his knees, crawled towards Voldemort, and kissed the hem of his black robes. So, as you can see — there is no talk of flying.
The smoke, mist and the impression of flying is just a description of Apparition and nothing more. The book is more precise there, but as we said — the filmmakers took some liberties and reinvented the whole scene so that it leaves the impression of flying.
It really looks cool, we cannot deny it, but you have to be careful not to confuse it with actual unsupported flying, which was demonstrated by Voldemort and Snape only. Fenrir even developed a taste for humans without a full moon. This nifty trick also works the other way around.
At one point, the Dark Lord orders them to signal him if they capture Harry. Neither the books nor movies ever specify whether Death Eaters can contact one another using their Dark Marks, or if the brands are exclusively connections between them and Voldemort.
Thankfully, the Order of the Phoenix is resilient in its efforts to resist the Dark Lord. One of the most notable changes is the way Death Eaters travel. In the books, the Death Eaters simply Apparate and Disapparate like every other wizard or witch.
Popping out of thin air is hardly the most cinematically striking visual. As a result, the Death Eaters are shown flying around like dark smoke. They can even physically wreak havoc in their wispy state. Similarly, the good guys are portrayed as streaks of bright white smoke when they Apparate. Dark Marks, on the other hand, do change in hue. Double Negative was the visual effects studio in charge of Goblet of Fire , and apparently, the digital results were so convincing that the actual actors were left out of many shots altogether.
Even scenes in which multiple Death Eaters Apparate around Voldemort were just portrayed with digital doubles. David Vickery reveals that director Mike Newell initially shot footage of the real actors stepping out of the smoke to transition from their digital doubles. However, matching the digital doubles to the real actors would have taken too much time. Despite the seemingly endless ways in which magic helps the Wizarding World function, several limitations still exist.
As it turns out, Voldemort has invented a spell to fly unsupported, as revealed in the Battle of the Seven Potters in The Deathly Hallows. What the Death Eaters are doing when they turn into black smoke is consistently described throughout the interview as Apparition.
Syflex: You worked mostly on the Death Eaters Can you tell us what were the director's requirements here? David: The Death Eaters had to be dark and scary with a really sinister quality to their apparition effect. It needed to look like an 'amoprhous spear of smoke' stabbing into the ground, with a certain level of supernatural control to the smoke as it swirled around the materializing digital double. The director had shot plates of the deatheater actors as he imagined they would step forward out of the smoke at the end of their apparition, so we knew we could create a transition from a digital double to the real actor if we had to.
The problem with this was the takeover point from one to the other - matching the exact position of a digital double to the actor at any particular point would have been very time consuming. In the end the cloth simulation and final render of the Death Eaters was so convincing that in a number of the shots we kept the digital double in the shot and left the actor out altogether.
Typically it's not flying, it's called unsupported flight, meaning that they are using a spell to Apparate and fly. Their cloaks are what brings out a trail, e. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?
Learn more. How do the Death Eaters fly? Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 1 month ago. Active 2 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 87k times. Please can somebody explain how the Death Eaters are able to fly like this? Improve this question. Obsidia k 18 18 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.
Aman sharma Aman sharma 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges. Himarm - Quidditch Through the Ages specifically says there is no spell that will allow humans to fly I'd have to look up the page number, but it's there.
How Voldemort and Snape know how to fly is a mystery. Himarm -- I did mention both Voldemort and Snape in my comment, and that their ability to fly is a mystery. What this means is we don't know how they do it. A kind of dark magic of which we are not familiar? Transfiguration of some kind? It could conceivably be any of these means.
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