Maybe why LV didn't die at GH (was: A BIAS in the Pensieve)

[carolynwhite2]

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wrote:
 
> Might keep Voldy alive those Dark Marks, maybe? Charm the people he 
> needed (vampish), he wanted souls (Dementor like), and deepest 
fears (Boggart like) Maybe this is Snape's connection:  he is the 
first person we see who introduces the Dark Mark to the septology, 
perhaps he is the one who devised this wicked little method. Up to 
his eyeballs in the Dark Arts and smarter than everybody, he did it 
with the Dark Lord and created a Frankenstein (metaphorically 
speaking.)  DD would know about it because Snape told him and *that*, 
my friends,  might be why DD trusts Severus Snape.  He'd also know 
killing TR in the DoM would be futile, because LV with his ample 
source of DE's,  would be able to restore him again eventually down 
the road.
> 
> Go ahead and add to it or pick it apart.  I'm waitin' :)  This is 
FUN!
> 

Carolyn:
Are you saying Voldy didn't control his supporters with Dark Marks 
before Snape came on the scene? Admittedly we don't know when Voldy 
introduced the device, and Snape could have helped him with it, but 
it seems rather late in the day to have thought of it.

If it was a vital device for absorbing life support, as well as 
exerting control, you would have thought Voldy needed it much earlier 
than this.

It also would seem to put Voldy deeply in Snape's debt. The sensible 
action of any smart Evil Overlord would have been to immediately zap 
Snape after rendering this service... but, I forgot, Voldy never 
reads the right rulebook, so maybe not.