Chapter Discussion: Goblet of Fire Ch. 9: The Dark Mark

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GOBLET OF FIRE CH. 9: The Dark Mark.
(With many thanks to Zara for her invaluable help ļ)
After the game Mr. Weasley and the kids get back to their tents. On their way
back Arthur tells the twins not to tell their mother that they gambled. 
Everybody seems to fall asleep. They are awoken from their sleep by Mr. Weasley
and told to go outside. While outside Harry, Ron and Hermione see masked people
floating four muggles, including Mr. Roberts. Ministry wizards appear, but they
seem to exercise caution because they do not want the floating muggles to fall.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione run to the woods, where they meet Draco Malfoy, who
suggests to Ron that he does not want those masked wizards to spot Hermione
because they won't be nice to her, as she is a Mudblood. Mayhem continues, and
Harry hears a spell and huge skull appears in the air. Hermione helpfully
suggests that this is a Dark Mark, Voldemort's sign. Finally ministry wizards
find them (Crouch, Diggory, and Arthur Weasley, who went to help the ministry,
are amongst them) and they at first think that the kids conjured Dark Mark, but
then abandon this idea. After the masked wizards  Disapparate, Ministry wizards
find an unconscious House Elf, who has a wand in her hands, which seems to have
performed the Morsmordre spell, to conjure the Dark Mark. Winky turns to be
Crouch's House elf and he punishes her by giving her clothes. Hermione is upset
over Mr. Crouch's treatment of the house elf. Arthur Weasley tells Hermione that
he agrees with her, but now it is not the time to discuss house elves' rights.
They get back to their tent where we learn from Arthur that Voldemort's
supporters, who were called Death Eaters, usually conjured Dark Mark when they
killed somebody and the consensus seems to be that Death Eaters are the ones who
did it this time as well.

1. What did you think of Arthur's parenting when he told twins not to tell their
mother that they gambled?
2. What was your first thought when you read about masked wizards torturing
Muggles if you remember?
3. Did you believe everything that Draco Malfoy said?
4. When you learned that Voldemort's followers are called Death Eaters, did you
wonder about the origins of the name, did you have any theories of your own?
What were they?
5. What did you think about Stan's scene in this chapter, does anything in that
scene contribute to your opinion that Stan was not (or, that Stan was) a Death
Eater?

6. Which one of the Ministry workers that we meet in this chapter is in your
opinion the best representative of what Ministry of magic stands for and why?


7. Your own question?
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