The Mark, was Re: Snape:second chance?

[Lisa (Jennings) Mamula]

No: HPFGUIDX 115726


> Amanda Geist wrote:
> <snip>
> I also think that if Voldemort ever truly dies, they will, too <snip>
> 
> Annemehr:
> The weak point, though, is that if true, I think the Death Eaters 
> would have acted very differently when Voldemort was vaporised.  
> Wouldn't they *all* have been looking for him, then, to treat him 
> with the utmost TLC just to make sure they themselves survived?  
> After all, if LV would just have slowly faded away, then so would 
> they.
> 
> Or am I missing something?
> 
> Annemehr
> who certainly agrees there's more to the Mark, one way or another,
> than we've seen so far...


Now LisaMarie:
No question about the Mark: it is definitely a creepy, evil device of LV and I 
daresay it's purpose isn't solely as a paging device, IMO.  I doubt LV put it 
there because he thought it looked cool. <g>  I think the DE had to do 
something truly *Dark* to receive it; I shudder to think what it must have been!

As for the hole Annemehr pointed out in the "life-force bound to the Mark/LV" 
theory that Amanda proposed above, I second that.  If LV's demise would 
have made their own inevitable, then they would surely have done something 
besides run and hide!  IMHO, the DE were interested in self-preservation *in 
the eyes of the WW*, and that's the reason they all fled/hid/lied their way out of 
accusation/conviction by the MoM.  They must have had some assurance that 
LV would, someday, return to power, as he finally did.

LisaMarie, still trying *not* to imagine the application process of the Dark 
Mark!