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MGrantwich wrote:
>  I guess maybe it isn't visible when it doesn't 
> > burn, or someone would have noticed it on people's arms, wouldn't 
> > they? Is it some kind of a tattoo, you suppose?
> > 
Bente Replied: 
> I think it's normally a light tatoo, hidden by their robes that 
turns 
> dark when V touches it and summons the DE.
> I think when AK rebounded on V and his power was destroyed, the dark 
> marks on the DE faded to almost nothing. Remember Snape and 
Karkaroff talking about it coming back and D's memory in the pensieve 
It's coming back...Karkaroff's too...stronger and clearer than ever" 
(GoF p. 598 US).

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Hi! Actually I got the impression that the dark mark disappears 
totally unless the D.E. are being summomed, as Voldemort says, "It's 
back,...they will all have noticed it..." (G of F p.560) It would be 
quite easy for the ministry to find Death Eaters if all they had to do 
was pull up a suspects robes. I think they can feel it start to burn 
before it appears (hence Karkaroff's apprehension). However, I don't 
think it becomes visible unless Voldie wants it to, unlike Harry's 
scar, which is strangly connected to the dark marks (remember how 
Harry's scar burned strongly as Voldie turned Peter's black?), but not 
in V's control.

-Cornflower O'Shea