Not a Dark Mark ?

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 139396


> > Valky wrote:
> <snip> 
> > 
> > Throughout HBP Draco starts to look more and more sickly. He keeps
> > disappearing. In Borgin and Burkes he shows Borgin something that
> > frightens him, Harry thinks its a Dark Mark, but how can we be 
> > sure. Can we even really be sure that a Dark Mark would frighten 
> > Borgin? When Snape showed Fudge his burning Dark Mark, it didn't 
> > frighten him much, and there are many in the WW who don't even 
> > know what they are. 
> > Well it could be a Dark Mark, but since there *is* reason for 
> > doubt, then why don't we call it a Werewolf bite ?
> <snip>
> 
> Carodave:
> If Draco had been bitten by a werewolf, I think it would be more 
> evident.  At the very least, he would disappear every month,

Valky now:
Yeah he does disappear a lot. And Harry cannot get into the room of
Requirement by asking to find Draco Malfoy. At the end of the book we
find Draco *was* up to something in the ROR, so I do still wonder why
the ROR didn't provide. Maybe Draco wasn't there, or maybe Draco
wasn't Draco. Both work for me. In either case there is evidence to be
considering an additional factor in Draco's dissappearances. 



carodave: 
> at worst,he would transform and attack fellow students or staff.

Valky:
Heehee that would give the game away though wouldn't it. I was just
thinking, JKR has already hidden one werewolf from us, so we know what
we are looking for the second time around. If there was going to be
another hidden werewolf, then it would have to be hidden a whole lot
*better* this time, a little bit deeper. In POA Lupin didn't have a
reason for looking pale and haggard, like Draco did, it's true. But
Draco is much younger and more energetic in that respect. It *would*
take more to bring a semi-adult boy almost in his prime down to
exhausted, than an older guy who has been through the mill a few
thousand times already. So I can imagine it possible and realistic
giving Draco three problems instead of two. Especially if you needed a
place to hide a werewolf, a boy like Draco with two huge problems
already could conceal it well for you.

I guess what I am saying is that the only Werewolf Draco to consider
here is a deliberately well hidden one. But it does look plausible to me.


carodave:   
> I think he looks pale and sickly due to the pressure of his new job  
> working for V.  It must be incredibly stressful every month he 
> doesn't accomplish his goal, knowing that is one step closer to 
> destruction (of him, his family, etc.).

Valky:
*If* there is a hidden werewolf Draco, then this is what we are
supposed to believe. But I digress. The fact is, there are unanswered
questions about Draco's behaviour in HBP. Moaning Myrtle says that he
is crying about being bullied. We have to locate these bullies, and a
werewolf family fits a line of suspects as well as any family of DE's
will. There is also him saying that nobody could help him, which is
not quite true since Snape is bound to a UV to do just that unless he
isn't talking about helping him with his task. Finally there is his
comment to Snape at Christmas, that the whole Dark Arts Defense thing
is silly, noone needs defending against it, which begs the question of
how scared he really is of Voldemort, he sounds like Bella, he sounds
faithful.




> Carodave: 
> How would Borgin even recognize a werewolf bite?  Does a werewolf 
> bite have distinguishing characteristics that make it different from 
> a dog bite or another animal's bite?  Other than the results of 
> turning the victim into a werewolf of course. 
>

Valky:
That is an excellent question. I do wonder if a werewolf bite is
distinctive in any way. The man in St Mungos in OtP gives us no clue
except that he looked green and sickly. The only clue we have is that
Ron says Bills wounds are unlikely to ever heal fully, because they
are cursed. This seems to be as close as we have to canon
disctinctiveness of a Werewolf bite. At least it is something. ;D