[HPforGrownups] Re: When will the ministry start kicking butt and taking names?

[Kathy King]

No: HPFGUIDX 146868

Jen D:



> So glad you replied. I meant to mention this previous post but
forgot. First, I want to give credit where credit is due. John
Granger's excellent paper on HPB has an eye-opening analysis of
Slughorn and one of his most intriguing points was that the fake
attack that Slughorn set up before DD and Harry go to his house was
perhaps a little too good. I don't have my copy of HPB in front of
me but I seem to remember that the Dark Mark hung above the house.
If I remember my GOF canon corretly, it was only LV's followers who
knew how to conjure that mark. I do not trust Slughorn as far as I
can spit him.


 Snow:



The mark was not set in that instance, which is what alerted Dumbledore to
that fact:



"My dear Horace," said Dumbledore, looking amused, "if the Death Eaters
really had come to call, the Dark Mark would have been set over the house."
HBP pg. 64



 Snow


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