Scar - Muggle/Owl post - Wand core - LOONiness

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 23180

Red Queen wrote:

>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?

Probably the same one you made:  that both Snape's Dark Mark and Harry's 
scar are signs that Voldemort is returning.

What else this may say about Harry's scar, including Amanda's theory that 
Harry may die if Voldemort does (curse you, Amanda!), we shall see . . .

Susanna wrote:

>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,

Who you calling a Muggle?  :sigh:  I hate when people disturb my denial.

Michelle wrote:

>And the Dursely's obviously know that owls are used for the post, 
>therefore, when one showed up around Christmas, they figured out (ok, so 
>I'm giving them a lot of thinking credit here) that it was there to pick up 
>Harry's pressies.

Hedwig delivers his present, so-called, from the Dursleys in CoS (ch 12).  
It's perfectly possible that she just brings it from the Owl Post Office or 
whatever the Muggle post/magical post liaison office is, but I love the 
image of Hedwig impatiently pestering them to tie a parcel onto her leg, 
Petunia explaining to Vernon in a state of hysteria what this is all about, 
and the Dursleys having to give in despite their hatred of all things 
magical.  Hedwig is not an owl who takes no for an answer.

Lisa wrote:

>The phoenix is obviously a symbol of
 > goodness, and closely associated with Dumbledore.  There's clearly a
 > bond between Harry, Dumbledore, and the phoenix.  How is it that evil
 > Voldemort has the feather from the same phoenix in his wand?

Welcome, Lisa!  Good question.  As a fan of the Riddle/Harry similarities 
and the ongoing question of what makes evil people evil, I like this because 
it suggests that Riddle at 11 was much like Harry at the same age: unformed 
as a wizard, ignorant of the wizarding world, possessed of great potential, 
and not yet firmly on the path to good or evil.  The choices by which he 
turned his powers to doing evil were still ahead of him.  A phoenix feather 
is simply a thing of power, and what is made of it is up to the bearer.

Or, to argue the other side, perhaps tools do have their own agendas :bows 
in gratitude to Tolkien for his Ring and Pullman for his knife:--in real 
life they do--in which case the wand itself may have been trying to turn 
Riddle onto a better path by choosing him.

Anal P. Lardbottom wrote:

>London 1M 0DD

UR ODD indeed.

>Catriona aka Incitata

nitpicked correctly in her first post.  I propose that this exempts her from 
the L.O.O.N. entrance exam--whaddaya say, President Curmudgeon?

Amy Z
L.O.O.N. Officer in charge of member recruitment (a process clinically known 
as induction of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, which, when practiced on an 
unwilling victim, is the 4th Unforgivable Curse)

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"I thought it sounded a bit like Percy
singing.  Maybe you've got to attack him
while he's in the shower, Harry."
            --HP and the Goblet of Fire
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