The Dark Mark

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 5693

-- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:

> On the other hand, why mark your followers in such a way that would 
> be obvious? Why not make a neon sign float above them saying "Death
> Eater"? (snip)
> Otherwise, how could there have been DeathEaters who weasled away?
> Just look at the arms and chuck the marked ones into Azkaban.

Lucius Malfoy has the Dark Mark (there he is at the circle in 
graveyard, called by name by Voldemort) and he weaseled out of 
Azkaban. Same for Crabbe, Goyle, Avery, Nott.... 

Either your theory of an incantation that conceals the Dark Mark is 
correct or they successfully LIED. I think the Latter: the Mark was 
visible but they swore under oath that it had been put on them while 
they were under the Imperius Curse or some other mind-control curse. 
Remember, all the way back in Book 1, Ron told Harry that Lucius 
Malfoy worked for You-Know-Who but was one of the first to come 
back when You-Know-You was defeated, claiming that he had been 
bewitched.