Dark Marks and Crouch Jr.

[blpurdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 37622

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Whirdy at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 4/9/02 8:21:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> ms_petra_pan at y... writes:

> > Consider this: if Crouch Jr. was already a full-fledged DE when 
> > he was caught, wouldn't his denial of Voldemort at the trial 
> > make him less than Voldemort's faithful servant whose loyalty 
> > has NEVER wavered?

You make a good point.  It is true that in the Pensieve scene, 
Barty, Jr. consistently denies any wrongdoing, while his co-
defendant (Mrs. Lestrange?) speaks like a heretic about to be burned 
who refuses to recant her apostacy.  (I also think other Inquisition-
type similarities to this tribunal are completely intentional.)

> However, if Barty Jr was a DE should he not also bear the Dark 
> Mark, which would have gone a long way to support Barty Sr 
> hostility, although given maniacal rage of Sr, it is doubtful that 
> lack of the DM would have had any impact either.

We saw in GoF that the visibility of the Dark Mark seems to be 
directly linked to Voldemort's strength.  Thus Karkaroff tells Snape 
that his has 'never been clearer' and he's very alarmed by what that 
means, since he named names to get out of Azkaban.  The implication 
here is that prior to the tournament, the Mark was somewhat 
indistinct on the arms of Death Eaters.  And since Barty, Jr. and 
his cohorts were accused of torturing the Longbottoms for 
information about Voldemort after his fall, presumably their marks 
all would have been 'dormant' at that time.  That may be what 
alarmed them in the first place, noticing the Marks fading on their 
arms when the curse rebounded from Harry onto Voldemort.

Also, Sirius is confused by what Karkaroff could have been showing 
Snape when Harry tells him of what he witnessed in the Potions 
dungeon.  It doesn't seem to be common knowledge in the wizarding 
world that Death Eaters carry a magical mark that Voldemort can use 
to summon them.  If Sirius had known about this and if the 
authorities had known, he might have thought to use his lack of a 
Dark Mark as a defense when he was accused of betraying James and 
Lily.

--Barb

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