Sirius and the Dark Mark

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No: HPFGUIDX 35581

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "hollygolightly95" 
<miss_hollygolightly at h...> wrote:
> Greetings from London, England.
> Apologies if this has been discussed before (couldn't find it in 
the 
> archives...)
> 
> If all Death Eaters have the Dark Mark on their arm, it should be 
> easy enough to identify them. If Sirius never was a Death Eater, he 
> doesn't carry the mark, so why was that not enough to prove his 
> innocence? Why was he sent to Azkaban without even a trial?
> 
> holly


IIRC, the Dark Marks vanished when LV was defeated by the infant 
Potter. They did not return until GoF when LV was "reincarnated" by 
Pettigrew's spell. So it would not have been detectable when Sirius 
was arrested.

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