Wormtail and the Mark

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 110545

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tiggersong" 
<tiggersong at y...> wrote:
> I can't, for the life of me, figure out if Wormtail has taken the 
> Mark.  I would think that LV would insist on it, but wouldn't it
... 
> well ... give Peter away to the Order?  
> 
> Or are they invisible until LV touches his?  I know they darken 
when 
> he's stronger, but I don't know if they're true "tattoos" or if 
> they're just magical pagers, so to speak.
> 
> What do you guys think?  Does Wormy have the Mark?


Canon says so. 
"Voldemort bent down, and pulled out Wormtail's left arm; he 
forced the sleeve of Wormtail's robes up past his elbow,  and 
Harry saw something upon the skin there, something like a vivid 
red tatoo -- a skull with a snake protruding from its mouth -- the 
same image that had appeared in the sky at the Quidditch World 
Cup: the Dark Mark." -- GoF 32

It wouldn't be much use if it couldn't be concealed from Aurors, 
so I suspect it is invisible unless either  the bearer or Voldemort  
wishes to reveal it. We know from Snape and Karkaroff that their 
marks were becoming more visible during year four, but whether 
this applies to all the Death Eaters, we don't know. It might be 
that Voldemort wanted to send a  reminder to just those two, 
letting them know their days were numbered. 

There's the question of how the DE's at the QWC knew one 
another, but I suspect that of that group only Malfoy and a few of 
his associates were marked members of the inner circle. The 
rest were probably hangers-on, witches or wizards who weren't 
marked DE's but thought that Voldemort had the right idea, or 
had been bewitched or bullied by Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle, Srs.


 According to Karkaroff, the Mark served as a way that Death 
Eaters could identify one another. Possibly one Death Eater 
could use it to signal another and this is what *really* happened 
on the stairs in GoF when Snape clutched his arm. Snape 
seems to think his own weakness is responsible. Perhaps the 
mark burns when he thinks of it.

 Hermione thinks the absence of the mark would prove one isn't 
a Death Eater, but it has to be more complicated than that. It's 
like Sirius said, she has a lot to learn.

Pippin