[HPforGrownups] Scar - Time-turning - Moon - Thigh boots - Dark Mark

golden faile golden_faile at yahoo.com
Sat May 5 04:10:29 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 18188



> 
> Dave pondered:
> 
> > What I don't get is that if the MoM ever had any
> doubts about
> > who was really on V's side and who wasn't, why
> didn't they
> > just look at their arm?
> 
> I think it is invisible most of the time.  V may be
> an Unhinged Evil 
> Overlord, but tattooing members of a secret society
> is dumber than 
> dumb.  
> 
> Counterevidence: Karkaroff's distress suggests that
> it was visible 
> when Voldemort was powerful, faded after his
> downfall, and is only now 
> becoming visible because he is returning.
> 
> Evidence:  "There," said Snape harshly.  "There. 
> The Dark Mark.  It 
> is not as clear as it was, an hour or so ago, when
> it burnt black, but 
> you can still see it" (GF 36).  This suggests that
> even though 
> Voldemort is, as far as we know, alive and feeling
> fine (if a tad 
> peeved), the mark will fade again--to invisibility,
> perhaps?
> 
> More evidence:  Sirius doesn't know anything about
> it, despite being 
> in the resistance and then in Azkaban, where, even
> if most prisoners 
> are in solitary most of the time, you'd think he
> would have seen it 
> sooner or later.
> 
> Still, I think V should be more careful.  What if
> Malfoy had been 
> playing tennis with Fudge at the moment V touched
> Wormtail's mark?  
> Bad scene.
> 
> Maybe it is visible only to DEs and to those to whom
> they wish to 
> expose it?
> 
> Amy Z
> 
>
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I think that it is visible only at night and that V
only holds meetings and summons people at night. I'm
not sure but I think this is how it works.           >
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> 
> 


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