From Weird Question to Stupid Questions (about Death Eaters)

[Carol]

stacygalore wrote:
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> OK here are my questions.
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> 3. Since LV is finally vanquished, does the Dark Mark disappear from
the remaining DE? 
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> 4. How did Lucius Malfoy get out of Azkaban?
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Carol responds: 

Most of your other questions have been answered (and BTW, I agree with
Potioncat that Snape, LV's new right-hand man, may have put in a good
word for Draco, who did succeed in getting DEs into Hogwarts, enabling
Snape to "murder" DD), but I thought I'd point out that JKR addressed
the disappearing Dark Mark question in the Bloomsbury Online Chat,
July 30, 2007:

"The Dark Mark would fade to a scar, not dissimilar to the lightning
scar on Harry's forehead. Like Harry's, these scars would no longer
burn or hurt."

The Leaky Cauldron's Post-Deathly Hallows Information page

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/books/postdh

contains a link to the original chat.

As for Lucius's escape from Azkaban, Voldie says in chapter 1 of DH
(when he takes Lucius's wand) that he broke him out (though I assume
it was the DEs who did the work) and that he should be grateful. Also,
in "Fallen Warrior," Kingsley Shacklebolt mentions an escape from
Azkaban that the Ministry has covered up. Dolohov, Rookwood, Macnair,
and Bellatrix's husband Rodolphus are among the escapees (all of them
are mentioned at some point in DH). That's how Stan Shunpike and
Mundungus Fletcher got out of Azkaban, too, so I imagine that all of
the DEs arrested in OoP were freed. That would be, in addition to
those I've already named, Rabastan Lestrange, Crabbe, Jugson, Avery,
Mulciber, and Nott, who was injured and didn't participate in the
fight. (Kingsley mentions Travers, but I thought he escaped in OoP and
wasn't involved in the Ministry fiasco. Another JKR memory lapse, I
guess.) Goyle was not mentioned as participating in the raid.


Anyway, Lucius and the other DEs escaped at some point between HBP and
DH, but there's no Daily Prophet article because the escape was hushed up.

Carol, now wondering what happened to the baby-headed DE, whom I think
must have been Crabbe (by process of elimination)