[HPforGrownups] Dark Mark as evidence of being a Death Eater

[Katze]

No: HPFGUIDX 32029

Chip Olson wrote:
> 
> Something just occurred to me about the Dark Mark: Snape states in GoF
> that it is burned onto every DE's arm by Voldemort, as a way of
> identifying each other. This seems to be news to Fudge, but it's
> definitely known to Moody in the staircase scene, where he makes the
> remark about "stains that never come off", or some such. But it
> doesn't sound like the presence or absence of a Dark Mark was even
> checked for when the suspectd DE's were being rounded up after
> Voldemort's downfall.
> 
> Now, it's quite paossible that, with Voldemort incapacitated, the mark
> basically disappeared, as we know waxes and wanes with Voldemort's
> strength.
> 

I was wondering that myself. I would think that it disappears and then
reappears when V wants the DE's to show up. V probably wouldn't want his
people to be implicated so easily, so it would make sense for it not be
visible.

-Katze