[HPforGrownups] Draco's alleged dark mark

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 162615

MQ asks:
> In HBP Ch. 24, we all know how badly Draco is injured.
> If Draco has the dark mark on his left arm as Harry suspects...
> would Madam Pomfrey not have seen it when ministering to his wounds?

Shelley:
I see several possible options:
- Madame Pomfrey is sworn to secrecy- kind of like the Hippocratic oath- 
about her patient's details. This means she saw it, but did not disclose to 
others that he had it. I am sure it shocked her and scared her if she did 
see it.
- Madame Pomfrey saw it, and did tell Dumbledore. Harry wouldn't have been 
privileged to know this information, but DD would have used it in his 
planning and scheming to try and save Draco before the real harm is done.
- As already mentioned, the Dark Mark is somehow invisible until it starts 
burning or coming back to show that the Dark Lord will be wanting that 
person's service. I imagine that in the first war, there was no need for 
them to be hidden, as all the DE were out in the open, but at times when 
someone is a stealth agent, like now, they would need to be muted somehow.

More interesting to me, is the thought of how that Dark Mark was placed 
there. Did Voldemort do it himself? Can it be remotely placed if one takes a 
vow? Can a messenger deliver the mark for the Dark Lord? If Draco crying in 
the bathroom is any indication, I am sure he was pleased as punch to first 
get it, and then further meetings with Lord Volde really drove home the 
seriousness of what he had gotten himself into- that this was no little 
bullying game that he was used to playing- and that REAL lives were at 
stake, mainly his own and his parent's lives. I think he got it in the 
summer, between school years, maybe even before his parents knew what was 
happening, if he was at his aunt's house under the pretense of Occulemency 
training. I am sure that his mother freaked once she found out the reason 
why Lord Voldemort has chosen her son, and what his mission was. Thus, begin 
the beginning of Book 6, and the scene with Snape.

Shelley