![]() ![]() ![]() After learning that Dolohov escaped from Azkaban with several other Death Eaters, Molly had a moment of post-traumatic stress, suddenly unable to protect herself from a boggart at Grimmauld Place, and viewing her worst fear - her children and Harry dead one by one ( OP25). Chances are the Dark Mark appeared in the sky when they died, perhaps directly over the Prewett house. Her two brothers, Gideon and Fabian Prewett had been killed during the first war with Voldemort by the Death Eater Antonin Dolohov ( PS1, OP9, OP25). But we have to look deeper into her family history to understand what she was feeling. To some readers, Molly's reaction seemed overwrought and hysterical, especially when she was usually a strong character. In fact, she was so upset when her husband and children arrived home safely that she had to drink Ogden's firewhisky to calm herself ( GF10). It certainly came to be feared and loathed in the rest of Wizarding society during Voldemort's first and second reigns of terror.Īs the Dark Mark hovered over the Quidditch World Cup, Molly Weasley assumed her family had been killed by Voldemort's followers, the Death Eaters. To Voldemort the Dark Mark perhaps symbolized the history of Slytherin House, the ability to speak Parseltongue, and more darkly, the power to hunt down victims and kill them. Tom spoke to the basilisk, telling it to kill, and thus he murdered Myrtle Warren in the restroom, using her death to turn his diary into his first Horcrux. As a young student, Tom Riddle discovered the entrance to the Chamber of the Secrets containing a giant statue of Slytherin from whose mouth the giant basilisk emerged ( CS17). While not definitively stated in canon, the Dark Mark seems to have been invented by Voldemort (or Tom Riddle) as an homage to his revered ancestor, Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts.
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