Dark Mark

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 185849

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "happyjoeysmiley" 
<happyjoeysmiley at ...> wrote:
>
> <magnolia11875@> wrote:
> >
> > Heya!
> > 
> > I'm trying to figure out all I can about the Dark Mark, the one
> > branded onto the Death Eaters, not the mark sent into the air.  
I'm
> > trying to come up with some way to logically block or remove or
> > something the Dark Mark, you see, but I need to know what we 
know 
> for
> > sure what we actually know.  All the help anyone can give would 
be
> > completely awesome beyond all measure.  Hugs!
> > 
> > Tabs
> >
> 
> Joey:
> 
> In DH Chapter 1, Snape and Yaxley raise their left arms (IIRC) and 
> the iron gates of Malfoy Manor allow them to just get in *through* 
> them. I thought it was the Dark Mark's working.


Leah: In HBP, 'The Lightening Struck Tower', the door to the 
Astronomy Tower appears to have been blocked to all but bearers of 
the Dark Mark, since Snape is able to pass through it and reach the 
top of the Tower, but other Order members who try to get through are 
thrown back.

There was a question on another posting thread about why it wasn't 
noticed that Sirius didn't have the Dark Mark, and the answer to 
that seems to be that the Mark disappeared after the vapourisation 
of Voldemort at Godric's Hollow, so it would not have been visible 
on anyone questioned as a potential Death Eater.   Karkaroff is 
getting frantic about the Mark becoming stronger during GOF and in 
HBP, 'Spinners End', when Snape is talking to Bellatrix about the 
Graveyard return, he  tells her, '...the Dark Mark had been growing 
stronger for months. I knew he was about to return - so did all the 
Death Eaters'.  

Leah