[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's scar (was JKR and intuition)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 23111

r_e_d_queen at yahoo.com wrote:

> Personally I've been noticing a lot of correlation between Harry's
> scar and the Dark Mark of the Death Eaters. It seems to connect Harry
> to Voldemort in a way similar to the Dark Mark: both become more
> actively painful the more powerful Voldy becomes. What is the true
> meaning of Harry's scar? This is a question Dumbledore is also asking.
> In GoF30 he tells Harry, "That is no ordinary scar", and in the
> pensieve scene Dumbledore sees Harry's face in the pensieve and adds a
> silvery thought from his head. Harry's face turns into Snape saying
> "it's coming back clearer than ever". "A connection I could have made
> without assistance," Dumbledore remarks wearily. What is the
> connection Dumbledore just made with the help of the pensieve?

This train of thought is unsettling, if my old thought about the Dark
Mark is correct. I had tossed out for the list's consideration, this:
that the reason Voldemort was so irate that nobody had come looking for
him, is that they *had* to have known he was alive in some form
somewhere, because part of what the Dark Mark does is bind you to his
fortunes forever. If he dies, so do you. Since they weren't all dead,
they knew he was alive and *still* didn't go seeking him. Which is
plenty reason for his anger. And which makes Snape's paleness at going
to his task more understandable, since even if he always knew his role
would involve defeating Voldemort and possibly incurring his own death,
now he's actually *doing* it.

Asking someone to bind their whole life to him seems so Voldish. And a
symmetry between Harry's scar and the Dark Mark now seems eerie to me;
with that *and* the blood bond now established, is Harry to die when
Voldemort does (a la the dragon in Dragonheart)?

--Amanda


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