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A Mechanical Death Eater[4] (also known as training dummy)[1][2] was a piece of magical machinery designed for the purpose of Defence Against the Dark Arts, carrying both the likeness of a Death Eater and bewitched to move and roll around on its own accord, it was an excellent target for those who sought to improve their spell-casting.[3]

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Training dummies were already in use by students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry during the 1890s, though at this point they couldn't have been called Mechanical Death Eaters yet due to the time period.[5]

By the mid-1980s, several of these dummies had been placed at the Training Grounds of Hogwarts, on which several students, including as Bill Weasley, practised their defensive spellwork. These dummies had a wand so it was able to act as a real Death Eater would, and they could also be disarmed.[1][2]

Dumbledore's Army Duelling Dummy WU

A Mechanical Death Eater used by Dumbledore's Army

By the mid-1990s, one such contraption had been placed inside the Room of Requirement, and was provided the group calling themselves for the Dumbledore's Army by the room's enchantments among an assortment of stored books and objects that would, during the 1995–1996 school year, provide them with tools necessary to train themselves in Defence Against the Dark Arts in preparation for the forthcoming Second Wizarding War in a time when the Ministry of Magic were still denying the return of Lord Voldemort. The dummy in question was subsequently used by the aforementioned student organisation to practise their spells inside . The dummy was used as a target while the group trained with such spells as Diminuendo, Expelliarmus, Stupefy, and Reducto.[3]

During the Calamity which affected the wizarding world in the 2010s, Troll Confoundables guarded these dummies as Foundables, for which members of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force could overpower with the Bombardment Spell.[6]

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