The Dark Mark

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No: HPFGUIDX 124788


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <snow15145 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
>snip>

> Hermione used a piece of paper with a binding signature as the 
> connection but what if Voldemort used himself as the connection in 
a 
> way that he is informed through the dark mark of non-allegiance. 
If 
> you take that connection one step further, could it be possible 
that 
> it was through this dark mark on his followers that may have kept 
him 
> alive? 

I think this is entirely possible. I believe they are called Death 
*Eaters* for a good reason. Note Voldy styles himself as the Dark 
Lord, his mark is the Dark Mark, so why aren't his followers Dark 
Servants. Now, one eats to feed a need but what if that need is not 
ones own, could their role be to 'eat' on behalf of their master? If 
so what exactly are they supposed to eat in order to feed him?

<snip>
> 
> There could be a definite drawback to this proposal; Voldemort 
could 
> never be killed as long as any deatheater remains alive. 

If his servants are feeding him, rather than being fragmented 
embodiments, then yes, he could be killed independently as it were.

Then again 
> there is always the Harry factor. No one is absolutely certain 
what 
> part or parts of Voldy were transferred to Harry at Godric's 
Hollow 
> but there appears to be some connection between Voldemort touching 
> Pettigrew's scar and Harry feeling pain in his at the same time in 
> the graveyard. There is also a hopeful statement from Voldemort to 
> his deatheaters that can be construed as Voldemort being mortal 
after 
> his rebirth. 
> 
> "But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing 
> immortality." GOF pg. 656
> 
> Voldemort may have lost that particular portion of the dark mark's 
> original connection. The reason he may still be alive is more 
Harry 
> now than the deatheaters. 


Ah but what of 'neither can live while the other survives'?

Which is where I leap from informed supposition to 'making it up' 
and believe the Dark Lord is an inherited title for the person 
hosting another (Slytherin being my choice, although he could have 
been the first known carrier) who is now suffering from severe split 
personality and residing in both Voldy and Harry. This entity has an 
overwhelming desire to be whole and requires Harry and Voldy to 
resolve the problem, one must be vanquished for the entity to 
regroup. Then again the entity is now weak and can also be 
vanquished at the point of resolution.

As an exercise in `doing your head in' try reading the prophecy as 
referring to three souls, where the `Dark Lord' can be either Voldy, 
or his (and now Harry's) inner bad, or both. `Other', 'he' and 'him' 
can be either of the other two members of the trio with no 
consistency between or even within sentences. 

Regards
Jo