[HPforGrownups] Re: OotP: Sneaks and Spies

[the firey chasm from whence it came]

No: HPFGUIDX 64845


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>      And a quick question on a completely different topic.  Didn't
>anyone notice that Sirius didn't have the Death Eaters mark on his
>arm?  Even if the MoM didn't know about those till now, couldn't that
>have been used to prove his innocence?  This has been driving me
>nuts.

I'm not sure that the Dark Mark being on the DEs arms was common knowledge, 
because Fudge doesn't seem to know what Snape is talking about when he 
shows him his Dark Mark. Then again,  maybe that was more a matter of 
willful disbelief than incomprehension. It's probable that they'd need more 
proof than just the absence of the Dark Mark though, especially since there 
were eyewitnesses who swore they saw Black kill all those people. And since 
it's not widely known that Wormtail is alive, that also wouldn't have 
looked good for Sirius.

~dream