They Did What? (The Dark Mark Remix) [Harry Potter; Draco and Others]

[melle_mal]

Title: They Did What? (The Dark Mark Remix)
Author: melle_mal
Summary: The Dark Mark should have been solution to all of his problems, should have been his reward and his acceptance and his glory. But now it was nothing more than a testament to his shame and his failure and his loss.
Rating: PG
Fandom: Harry Potter
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Comments

[werewolfsfan]

Fascinating tale. I haven't read the original. I'm going to do that now. But I think you did a great job with Draco's POV and character. He is a Malfoy and a Slytherin through and through. He's just not cut out to be a Death Eater. Also, even though they appear only briefly, I can totally see your Harry and Hermoine as being in character with what we've seen of them in canon.
Do you know what passage really stood out for me?
Life was all about death for the Dark Lord. Ending it, prolonging it, cheating it. He called them Death Eaters because they devoured death, dissected it, breathed it, lived it. But for Draco the name had simply been a name. Until he had become it. He had feared death for too long, as children often do. The death of a destiny he didn't have, the death of his father's love, his own death at the hands of Voldemort. But it was nothing compared to this, the reality of it, the ugliness and finality of it. They had toyed with it, twisted it and molded it into something it should never have been.
I'd always hated that Rowling called Voldemort's followers Death Eaters. It fit into her oft used slogan that fear of a name increases fear itself. But I thought it too simple a name for the enemy. I believed that even in a children's series there should have been some effort made to show how real truths or values were twisted into something evil. But from your passage, I do see them as something truly sinister instead of cardboard villains to be conquered by a boy. And the Potterverse is richer for this.