Regulus - dead or alive/Dobby and Horcruxes

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 170082

> Magpie:
> Actually, Draco didn't take his offer primarily because the DEs 
> came in,which took it off the table. Draco says he hasn't got any 
> options *before* Dumbledore explains about protecting him. Draco 
> thinks his options are only that he kills DD or he and his family 
> die themselves. 
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Dana now:

DD offers to help Draco before he specifically states what he could 
do for Draco but Draco states in responds that nobody can help him. 

Pg 552 UKed Paperback chapter "the lightning - struck tower"

`
 no harm has been done, you have hurt nobody, though you are very 
lucky your unintentional victims survived 
 I can help you, Draco.'

`No, you can't,' said Malfoy, his wand hand shaking very badly 
indeed. `Nobody can. He told me to do it or he'll kill me. I've got 
no choice.'

End quote from canon 

Draco specifically states that nobody can help him because LV will 
kill him if he does not perform his task as ordered. He does not 
state that nobody can help him because LV threatened to kill his 
parents. Only then does DD try to persuade Draco with what he might 
be able to do for Draco but Draco still declines. Draco by that time 
is already struggling with his own inability to kill DD. Draco 
believing that nobody not even DD can help him, makes him chose to 
keep trying to convince himself, he will be able to do it but 
eventually when the other DEs show up he truly realizes he can't. 

I'm not suggesting it therefore is true that no DE can escape LV's 
punishment by faking his own dead but that I just can imagine LV 
putting such an magical enchantment upon the Mark and that he lets 
his DEs know that you can run but you can never hide and if Draco 
indeed has the mark on his arm then he would have told him this too. 
It would not just be because of DD's potential offer to help as Draco 
could have made a run for it himself in an attempt to get away. 

So again I'm not stating anything as fact as Barty isn't specific 
enough in the claim he makes concerning Karkaroff's fleeing and LV 
having a way to track his enemies but it would just be a very fitting 
thing LV would do and not just use it as a summoning device alone.  

JMHO

Dana