Dark Mark

No, that had been his father, and his mother to a lesser extent, leading Draco into believing one thing when the truth was far different.

like the Dark Mark his father had branded into his forearm.

From everything Black had said at the meeting and his mother had said in their lessons that Summer, the Mark, was the equivalent of a brand of slavery, a subjugation of will and freedom to the Dark Lord's whims.

His father had once proudly displayed the faint outline and told Draco that he wore it as a badge of pride.

Right.

It feels like the kinda thing where you could have joined hands, and that's part of how, like, the Dark Mark appears on your person.

But it-

Well, yes.

Right.

Kind of thing.

So, so with the thought here, just to clear, clear maybe some pieces of it up, is that, like, maybe not the Dark Mark in particular being an act of commitment to the Unbreakable Vow, but maybe Regulus in particular was entangled in one?

Yes.

But I think in that moment, he must have been

on the inner circle enough that he had the dark mark.

So it wasn't just like he was...

Oh, you think he had the mark? Yeah.

You're right because obviously he does have the mark because that's how the book calls all the Death

Eaters in the graveyard.

So I just think that it's weird that he would have been important enough to have the dark mark but maybe they gave him that's quote unquote status because they knew he was close to James.

Well, then presumably you shouldn't give him the mark because it's a very obvious tell.

Yeah.

When they're talking about how can Draco be forcing Crabbe and Goyle to do this? And Harry says, well, he's showing them the dark mark.

And Hermione says, the dark mark we don't know exists.

And that's a good, useful moment because, oh, I see.

In canon, this moment, this doubt has been intentionally planted.

Yeah.

this canon debate that went on and on and on you know does he does draco or does he not have a dark mark we're supposed to not be sure that's of course again something that cursed child took the opportunity to settle

yeah i remember that moment in the first time i ever saw cursed child which was i don't even know like the teens 2010 somewhere in there when that came out in london 2016 2016 in london and when he pulls his sleeve up i had a moment of oh it's canon right i think the movie the movie really implied i don't think the movie showed it but the movie version really implied that he did like showed him pulling up his sleeve that we didn't see what was on his arm or something like that but i don't remember now been a while

Yeah.

Um, so you know, may- maybe, you know, it's like d- does he have the Dark Mark or, or a, a werewolf bite on his arm?

Maybe it's both.

Yeah.

... actually, usually you can't, 'cause Fenrir is like, "I'm a Death Eater." And he's like, "Actually, Fenrir, Fenrir, rein it in.

You s- look at your arm.

Do you see the Dark Mark? I didn't think so."

That's right.