[HPforGrownups] Re: Who's Afraid Of The Big, Bad Wolf? (WAS Odd parallels and FEATHERBOAS)

[Amanda]

No: HPFGUIDX 36778

Finwitch said, implying that Snape knew fake-Moody's real identity during
the hall confrontation:

> But - it wasn't *real* Moody. It was a DE called Bartholomeus Crouch.
> Snape's DE mark revealed that or did it?

Where did you get that? The Dark Mark was a means for DEs to recognize each
other, but we are not told *how.* The Marks gradually grow more recognizable
as Voldemort gains strength--but at this point in the story would it even be
visible yet? I'm betting there's some surreptitious, innocuous "trigger" to
making it tingle or burn or something in order to recognize a Fellow;
otherwise rounding up the DEs would have been childishly easy and there
would not be such mystery as to who was and was not. And there is no reason
for (a) Snape to try this at a person he has no reason to suspect is *not*
Moody, or for (b) Barty Jr. to try this at a person he considers a traitor,
and thus blow his cover.

I think this was a genuine emotional reaction by Snape to someone he really
believes is Moody.

--Amanda