The Dark Mark as Evidence

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> jspotila <jspotila at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I woke up with a start this morning, as this idea popped into my head.
> 
> Now that everyone knows about the Dark Mark being used as a magical tattoo 
> on 
> the Death Eaters, (after GoF) why can't the Ministry of Magic check Sirius 
> Black 
> for the tattoo and clear him?  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> My understanding is that Fudge doesn't believe, or doesn't want to believe, 
> anything Dumbledore &co. are telling him about Voldemort or the Death Eaters, 
> even regarding the Dark Mark.   In fact, when Snape shows Fudge the Dark 
> Mark (GoF, chapter 36), Fudge shakes his head and says, "I don't know what you 
> and your staff are playing at, Dumbledore, but I have had enough..."   Not 
> exactly a vote of confidence.  
> 
> -Antigone Q 
> 

I completely beleive Fudge would have responded the same way to Sirius in 
Azkaban, by trying to avoid the truth.  The question still remains as to why 
Sirius didn't try to explain his situation (what really happened, and teh 
Pettigrew is alive) to Fudge at the Azkaban visit. 

>From the way I understand it, at the time of Fudge's visit to Azkaban, Sirius 
has already been planning his escape.  Seeing Peter/scabbers with Ron in 
Egypt just gave more incentive to bust out of Azkaban.  If this would happen, why 
would Sirius need to try and claim his innocence?  At the time of Pettigrew's 
disappearance and Sirius's arrest, he probably pleaded his side of the case 
and no one beleived him.  Now, after living with these dementors in the wizard 
jail as a "crazy man", why would Fudge change his mind?  He didn't need to, 
because Sirius was confident he would find a way to escape anyways.  Why waste 
Sirius' strength on a hopeless case?

According to this reasoning, there is still no hope to clear Sirius' name if 
Fudge is MoM. Now that is a shame.  

PoPo  [Fudge is a big old fuddy-duddy!  Time to get him out of the Ministry 
and ship him off to Antarctica]


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