Harry, Snape, and the Pensieve

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 1769

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Ebony Elizabeth" wrote:

> Don't have the text of GoF in front of me, but from what I remember 
> at the end of the chapter Harry's face changed into Snape's in the 
> Pensieve.  Then Dumbledore says something to the effect of "a 
> connection I could have made without assistance

Harry's face telling Dumbledore that his scar hurts turns into Snape 
telling Dumbledore that "it" is getting clearer all the time.

On first reading, the meaning was was a mystery: WHAT is getting 
clearer, what does Snape have to do with Harry's scar? On second 
reading, it is *clear* that the connection between these two pieces 
of information is that Harry's scar hurts because of Voldemort, and 
that Snape was telling Dumbledore that the Dark Mark is getting 
darker on his arm and Karkaroff's arm, and that the connection is 
that both are signs that V is getting stronger or more active.

Am I the only weirdo who is reminded by the Dark Mark on their arms 
of Nazi concentration camp ID tattooes? How about being reminded of 
the Mark of the Beast?