Mind-linked!Snape (Part IV: TBAY conclusion)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 117113


Finwitch wrote:
> I do think it [the Dark Mark] burns/hurts when 
> ever a DE hears the name Voldemort. An act or words to make the 
> person saying it to share the fear makes it stop, I think. (At least 
> that's what we get of Snape's reactions when Harry says it. I wonder 
> how Dumbledore takes that... considering how he tries to get people 
> speak the name. One reason why Harry is so dear to him...)
>
Carol responds:
I'm not sure that all DEs feel pain when they hear Voldemort's name.
It may be peculiar to Snape--the Dark Mark punishing him for the
disloyalty it perceives in him. (It may be that a bit of Voldemort's
essence enters the DE through the mark, rather like the essence of a
portrait's subject entering the portrait, so that the mark is sentient
to a limited degree. If so, it would sense Snape's aversion to the
name and punish him for it.) At any rate, I don't think we can
consider Snape's reactions as typical of all DEs, if only because he
no longer is one in his own eyes or Dumbledore's.

I do think, however, that all the DEs would have known from their
marks that something drastic had happened to Voldemort the night of
Godric's Hollow, and Snape would certainly have reported such a change
to Dumbledore--very quickly, if he was teaching at Hogwarts at the
time. No need for Mind-linked Snape. The Dark Mark itself would be enough.

Carol