The Death Eaters, also sometimes called "The Eaters", also sometimes known as "Knights of Walpurgis", are an evil society of renegade magicians turned dark wizards who are the followers of Lord Voldemort and the collective true primary antagonists of the Harry Potter book series and its following film series. The group primarily consisted of wizards and witches who were radical pure blood supremacists and who practised the Dark Arts with reckless abandon, without regard to or fear of wizarding law. Lord Voldemort used this select group of wizards and witches during both the first and second Wizarding Wars, employing them as his elite force. They often wore black hoods and masks with snake-like eye slits to cover their faces.