[HPforGrownups] Re: Working mothers, was Did the Slytherins come back

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No: HPFGUIDX 181853

Montavilla47:
I don't think it really matters.  It was just something that struck
me as I was writing the post.  We never did find out if Draco
wore the dark mark.  Then I started to wonder if, if Draco had
gotten the dark mark, if he would have been standing on that
platform in the epilogue, or if he would have been in Azkaban
instead.

Another thing I wonder about that dark mark.  Do you think
that Snape went around thinking "All is well" for the years
up to GoF because his dark mark didn't hurt? Maybe so. :)

Shelley:
Having a Dark Mark alone wouldn't have been enough to send someone to 
Azkaban. He family ended up turning on Voldemort, and if they showed real 
repentance in the end (especially with all their money, if it was used to 
rebuild and/or help some of the children of the murdered parents), then I 
could see Harry, if he did indeed become Head of the Auror department, put 
in a good word for Draco and his family.

There's a scene where the trio is taken captive, and they are sent back to 
the Malfoy Manor- Draco's job is to identify Harry, Ron and Hermione. But, 
he doesn't, and he acts rather noncommittal at that point. It's the adults 
who absolutely finger the girl as Hermione, then deduce that the red head 
must be Ron, and if they had Ron and Hermione, then the puffy faced one must 
be Harry. You get a feeling that Draco, after being forced to torture people 
at Voldemort's request, really isn't for that lifestyle. Like it sounded all 
cool and everything from a distance, but seeing Voldemort up-close, started 
changing his mind.

We see Draco at the Room of Requirement trying to capture Harry (the only 
way to end the battle), but again, he's concerned about the diadem, and 
about keeping Harry alive. He asks his two buddies to show restraint. Crabb 
casts Crucio, and aims an Avada Kedavra at Hermione and again at Ron, and 
starts the Fiendfyre which eventually kills him. It seems that Crabb in 
particular, has a lust for the Darkest of Arts, but not the brains to know 
how to use them. Malfoy doesn't just run for his life when the fire comes, 
he's trying to do as Harry is doing- making sure to take someone with him.

And then Narcissa lies to Voldemort, after Harry tells her that he son is 
still alive. Her act saves Harry from being killed a 2nd time. The Malfoys 
entered the castle with Voldemort, but instead of fighting with Voldemort, 
they merely look for Draco. Draco's parents have a change of heart in the 
end, a change of heart that could have kept them from Azkaban as well. The 
Death Eaters that remained Death Eaters until the end either got death 
themselves or Azkaban, but the Malfoys all stopped being Death Eaters while 
Voldemort was still alive. So, I think they received leniency- punished 
lightly if they were punished at all. I also think that if you looked on the 
arms of the Death Eaters, the Mark would be gone. That Mark tied them to 
Voldemort, and when Voldemort died, I think that connection would have died 
with him. Spell ended, mark fade into nothing at all but normal skin. So, if 
my theory is correct, they could have looked for a Mark on Draco, and it 
wouldn't be there, because it would be on none of the Death Eaters anymore.