Wormtail and the Mark

[Amey Chinchorkar]

No: HPFGUIDX 110570

-	Tiggersong
-	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?
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-	Pippin
-	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.

Amey:
Aahh
 Pippin, you are faster than me at pulling out this piece of canon. So I think instead of plowing on and reposting it, I will post my theory.
For one, I think the Mark has tendency to appear and disappear as per the powers of Voldemort. When he is gaining strength through the potion, it is returning back (as Karkoff and Snape notice), but before that it is almost invisible (I think even to Moody) when he was *barely alive*. So in these 15 years, the Mark is not at all a reliable mark of a DE.
As for wormtail, I think he didn’t receive the Mark the first time around. He was a spy, and could not carry anything which might give him up, Snape would have noticed it easily. Which makes me wonder if Dumbledore knows about it from Snape? Ok, back to wormtail, he returned to Voldemort after his escape in PoA, and then he could not go back, had nothing to lose. Also, Voldmeort needed someone to summon all the DEs to the Graveyard after he was reborn. So he marked wormtail. Crouch could not be used here because he was not there and also, in his polyjuiced form (IMO) he didn’t have the Mark. And as we know, Voldemort had to press somebody’s mark to summon all. I doubt he would have a Mark on himself. I mena, he is not a simple rank and file DE, right?

Amey




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