CHAPDISC: DH 23, Malfoy Manor

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 183524

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Zara" <zgirnius at ...> wrote:
>(-----)

> Discussion Questions:
(------)
2) Greyback takes the party to Malfoy Manor rather than
> summoning Voldemort himself. Harry surmises this is because
Greyback
> is not a marked Death Eater. What do you think?
(-----)

Kamion

The fact that Greyback is not a marked DE, was for me an indication
that Draco himself was not Marked either, in spite of what is
suggested by Harry's very biased observations at Madame Malkin's. In
HBP Voldemort is official still anathema and would make no sense to
have an agent with a secret destructive mission so easliy marked.
Also was Draco not yet worthy of being enlisted in the inner circle
of Death Eaters, his father had loaded the family name with shame
just recently and he himself did not earn much Housepoints on the
Hogwarts  Express home in standing up to Mudbloods and Halfbloods.
He first had to earn his spurs by eliminating Dumbledore before
receiving the honor badge of the skull&serpent.
Futhermore in the period it really matters - as evidence for Harry
that Draco is more up to no good as usual - the Dark Mark is never
shown. After DHP it becomes irrelevant; the Malfoys on the whole are
disgraced persons in the Dark camp and suffer the consequences, they
look more like POW's then allies.
Greyback not Marked means not every in the Dark camp was regarded
wothy of being Marked and privileged to call upon Voldemort, nothing
indicated that Draco earned that privilege after HBP.