Communication

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 175475

montims wrote:
> <snip> what I don't get is the communication thing...  Someone
presses their mark and instantly LV knows they have "the boy", and
where they have him...  In the past we saw that he pressed the mark to
summon them, it would burn and darken on their arm, and they could
apparate to wherever LV was.  I wasn't sure how that worked, but it's
clearly "powerful magic".  With regard to the instructions to the
Carrows, I can't imagine LV put himself at risk to speak to them
directly - I expect the orders came through Snape, but would
communications with Snape have always been through the mark?  In
Snape's spying days also?  So the Order speaks through patronuses, and
the DE speak through the mark...
> Interesting...

Carol responds:
There's no indication in DH that the order to trap Harry in the
Ravenclaw common room came through Snape, who, in any case, does *not*
want Harry in the hands of the Carrows. He wants to talk to him
himself, to give him that last urgent message. Even though he has no
way of knowing whether LV has the snake under magical protection at
that moment, he knows that the Dark Lord is comong and time is running
out. The last thing he wants is Harry to be turned over to LV without
knowing that he has a soul bit in his scar and has to let LV and only
LV kill him.

If LV can communicate directly to Snape, as he clearly can, he can
communicate directly to lesser DEs, telling them to wait for Harry in
the Ravenclaw common room but not telling them why Harry would go
there. My guess is that LV sends brief messages to them rather like
the DA sending messages via Hermione's enchanted coins (or a speaking
Patronus) except that it's purely mental. LV doesn't have a Dark Mark,
but the DEs Dark Marks link them to him.

When a DE presses his or her own Dark Mark, however, it's merely a
summons to the Dark Lord, who has told them to do it for nothing less
than the capture of the Potter boy. He can communicate with *them* but
I don't think it's a two-way street (except possibly with Snape, who
is more gifted than most of the DEs and more nearly trusted thanks to
the "murder" of DD).

What surprises me, BTW, is that Flitwick actually allowed Alecto
Carrow into the Ravenclaw common room. Wouldn't that have been the
moment to stand up to her? Surely, he wouldn't want such a dangerous
and evil woman in the sanctuary of the students in his own House?

Carol, suspecting that here as elsewhere, character and plausibility
are sacrificed to the demands of the plot