Snape's avoidance of Voldemort' s name (Was:OOTP Chapter Discussions, Chap 2

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 109409

As usual, the part of my post that I'm most interested in getting a
response to got snipped, so I'm trying again.

I (Carol) wrote:
> The name [Voldemort] clearly causes pain to Snape: I'm not sure that
it does so for loyal DEs. In fact, my impression is that both
Voldemort's name and the presence of a loyal DE (Barty Jr. in
disguise) caused Snape's Dark Mark to burn because he's *dis*loyal to
Voldemort and the Mark senses that disloyalty. <snip>

Here's the canon for the name Voldemort, or the suspicion by a real DE
that he's not loyal to Voldemort, causing Snape pain. First, there's
the late night conversation with Crouch!Moody, witnessed by Harry in
his invisibility cloak:

"'Dumbledore happens to trust me!' said Snape through clenched teeth.
'I refuse to believe that he gave you orders to search my office!'

"''Course Dumbledore trusts you,' growled Moody. 'He's a trusting man,
isn't he? Believes in second chances. But me--I say there are spots
that don't come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d'you know what
I mean?'

"Snape suddenly did something very strange. He seized his left forearm
convulsively with his right hand, as though something had hurt him."
(GoF Am. ed. 472).

Clearly it's the Dark Mark--and Crouch!Moody's reference to it--that's
causing the pain. Snape, of course, still thinks he's speaking with
Moody the auror at this point, and he's still convinced that it's
Harry who broke into his office (the reference to searching his office
refers to a different incident). But we, the readers, know who "Moody"
really is and understand that his reasons for hating and distrusting
Snape are very different from the real Moody's. Snape has just stated
that Dumbledore trusts him, implying that the trust is merited and
that that's where his loyalties lie. And the Dark Mark, when
Crouch!Moody alludes to it, burns him painfully--in retribution, as I
see it, for that loyalty to Voldemort's greatest enemy.

The second incident that I recall (there may be others) occurs in OoP
during the first occlumency lesson:

"'How come I saw through the snake's eyes if it's Voldemort's thoughts
I'm sharing?'

"'*Do not say the Dark Lord's name!*' spat Snape. (Italics in original.)

"There was a nasty silence. They glared at one another across the
Pensieve.

"'Professor Dumbledore says his name," said Harry quietly.

"'Dumbledore is an extremely powerful wizard,' Snape muttered. "While
*he* may feel secure enough to use the name. . . the rest of us. . .'
He rubbed his left forearm, apparently unconsciously, on the spot
where Harry knew the Dark Mark was burned into his skin." (OoP Am. ed.
532).

This time the pain seems less intense, or he's better able to control
his reaction (using much the same skills he would use as an occlumens,
hiding his feelings and thoughts from others?), but nevertheless the
pain seems directly connected with Voldemort's name. That in itself
seems sufficient reason for Snape to call Voldemort the Dark Lord, but
I also think that he wants to emphasize for Harry in particular how
very dangerous--and Dark--Voldemort is. Not a foe to be faced lightly
by a boy who thinks he's a Dark Wizard's equal. He is, IMO, trying to
help Harry understand that in this scene.

But to return to my main point: Hearing the name, or a reference to
the mark placed by Voldemort himself on Snape's arm as a symbol of
loyalty and a means of enforcing it, causes Snape pain. The question I
have that I hope someone will answer is, do we have any indication
that the loyal Death Eaters feel a similar pain?

Clearly Crouch!Moody does not (at least in his polyjuiced form)
because he freely taunts Snape about the Dark Mark--but he also says
that "there are spots that never come off," so maybe his own Dark Mark
is still there, even in that disguise, unaffected by his references to
"spots" or to Death Eaters who walked free (as he, of course, did
not). He isn't in Moody's body, after all. The real Moody is lying
near death in his own trunk. I can't recall whether Crouch!Moody uses
the name Voldemort, but he's unfazed by Harry's references to the Dark
Mark and Death Eaters when they talk in his office (GoF Am. ed. 476).

So--is it only Snape whose Dark Mark burns when it--or Voldemort--is
referred to? And does it mean what I think it means, that the mark
itself senses his disloyalty to Voldemort?

Will someone please address this aspect of the question?

Carol