Harry's eyes and scar (seer??), Lily adopted

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r_e_d_queen  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"

Jenny from ravenclaw wrote:
<I've been convinced for quite a while that Harry is a Seer (and Ron 
<is NOT), and his Seer-ness being inherited along with his green eyes 
<is a brilliant idea. 


Just to throw in my personal theory about the green eyes and the 
scar: Certainly Harry's scar is no ordinary scar insofar as it is not 
just a sign that there has been a wound, like in us Muggles, or, to 
give a more scar/r/y example, in Alastor Moody. The scar is the sign 
of a connection, as much as Harry might dislike it, between him and 
Voldemort, irrevocably established by the Avada Kedavra Curse that 
rebounded on V. I think it's sufficiently extraordinary for a scar to 
burn whenever the one who hurt you is around or murderously thinking 
about you. 
Which brings me to the "Harry is a Seer" theory: The only reference 
in canon are his dreams, and I humbly ask you not to throw rotten 
tomatoes at me if I say I don't think it makes him a seer. Harry's 
two dreams don't show the future, they show him what's going on in 
the Riddle House in Little Hangleton. In both dreams, Voldemort uses 
one of the unforgivable curses, first Avada Kedavra, then Cruciatus. 
Had those two scenes happened without Harry being asleep, IMO his 
scar would have hurt as well. But when he is asleep, his mind is less 
controlled and more susceptible, therefore he not only feels pain, 
but also sees what's going on. As this is his first experience, he 
doesn't yet realize how useful this connection might be in the 
future. Maybe, when he will have accepted it, he will be able to work 
on controlling and using it for the benefit of the anti V.-group, 
being able to locate Voldemort and see what he's up to.
Looking at things from this POV, the green eyes should have yet 
another meaning (wasn't the JKR interview about people doing some 
kind of magic with their eyes, BTW?)
 

Cheryl Dimof wrote:
<Perhaps Lily was not actually Muggle born, but adopted and Harry is 
<actually descended from Gryffindor through his mother's line

OK, I'm glad somebody else brought up the adoption theory, which I 
thought of many times myself, because it would explain a great many 
things: 1) the striking difference between Lily and Petunia, 2) the 
fact that Lily is a witch and Petunia isn't (think of the Muggle-born 
Creevey brothers), 3) the surprising absence of any other family 
member who could take Harry after his parents were murdered 
(Petunia's and Lily's parents, if they are still alive-seems they 
aren't- would maybe have refused because Harry was no real relative 
to them). In the Mirror of Erised, Harry sees relatives from his 
mother's side ("And slowly, Harry looked into the faces of the other 
people in the mirror and saw other pairs of green eyes like his,...)


Susanna (hoping for comments- if possible not "al pomodoro")