The Dark Mark is about a terrorist act. Rowling is right, all six books have Chapters of Doom , but in those chapters, there are never attacks on undefended civilians at high scale.Some examples are attack on Dudley where Harry is the target or the death of Riddle's housekeeper which is not a planned attack(I don't count attacks to Hogwarts or ... More @Wikipedia
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