The Dark Mark

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Snow previous:
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> 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?

Jo
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?

Snow:

Or
Voldemort's death eaters are a way of symbolizing his immortality 
factor; they can eat his death therefore preventing him to ever die.


Snow previous:
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>
> 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.

Jo:
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.

Snow:
Possession is defiantly part of the equation, imo. When Voldemort 
became Vapor he was left with only one power and that was possession. 
Now why would he be left with any power
unless the Vapor that he 
became was already a possessed portion of Tom Riddle? 

 
Jo:
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.

Snow:
Been there, did that (108688)! Although I don't believe it is three

more like 1 ½ and 1 ½, Voldemort and Harry each have a bit of the 
*other* which is the original possession of Tom Riddle. I always 
liked Kneasy's proposal that the possessor was Salazar. It makes 
perfect sense when coupled with the fact that the dark mark insignia 
is very representative of the statue of Salazar in the Chamber when 
the basilisk protrudes from the skull of the statue to come after 
Harry.