[HPforGrownups] DEs recognising one another? (was Re: Who's Afraid Of The

[Amanda]

No: HPFGUIDX 36904

Naama said
> <bouncing back> However,  WHY would Voldemort allow his followers to
> be so easily exposed? I would have thought that a secret organisation
> such as the DEs would be much more careful about keeping the members'
> identity secret, wouldn't you? Maybe it works as a mechanism for
> identification only if both DEs activate it (meaning that the
> revelation has to be voluntary - one DE can't force another DE to be
> revealed to him, unless the other wills it also. Does that make
> sense?)

Perfect sense. I think there was some way they could "activate" their Mark,
similar to the finger-snap gesture Snape uses when the ends of Lupin's bonds
fly to his hands, or the hand-clap or whatever when Dumbledore changes the
decoration at the end of Book 1. Some gestural activation that would be
innocuous, causing their Mark to call to its brother or something. I don't
think they showed all the time, they *couldn't* have, how stupid is that,
why not tattoo "Voldemort Rocks" on your forehead?

--Amanda