[HPforGrownups] Re: The Dark Mark, Peter, Sirius and Snape (was: 'Back to Harry and a question')

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 5680

eliasberg at ioc.net wrote:

> Peter indeed had the Dark Mark, you can find it on page 645 (US
> version). "Voldemort bent down and pulled out Wormtail's left
> arm; he forced the sleeve of Wormtail's robes up past his elbow,
> and Harry saw something upon the skin there, something like a
> vivid red tatoo - a skull with a snake protruding from its mouth -
> the image that had appeared in the sky at the Quidditch WOrld
> Cup: the Dark Mark.". So there you have it.
>
> Dave

Remember the time that Karkaroff came to visit Snape in his class?  And
Karkaroff showed Snape his arm and said, "It's never been this clear, never
since--"

I think that the marks are on the arms of Voldemort's servants, but they
vary in intensity, depending on what Voldemort is doing.  If his power is
waxing, the marks become darker.  If he weakens, they become lighter.  When
Voldemort disappeared for a number of years, the marks might have become all
but invisible--but they were still there (which made it easier for the
Deatheaters like Lucius Malfoy to claim they weren't really his followers,
and retake their place in wizard society).  I imagine when Voldemort touched
Peter's mark to call all the Deatheaters to him, the marks on all the
followers' arms became very black.  Does that make sense?

Peg