Trailer: Scar

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 21686

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:

> 
> Can we clear this up right now?  I will personally send $20 to the 
> first person who can point to evidence in the books (non-JKR 
> illustrations don't count) that the scar is dead center.  I see it 
> that way, along with 99% of the fandom, but it isn't canon.  JKR 
even 
> said something in an interview about imagining baby H turning his 
head 
> when the big scary man came after him (or maybe in response to the 
> flash of light?) and getting hit off-center.  (Bad Amy, I have no 
> reference--but go forth and seek it in the Holy Lexicon if you want 
> the specifics).
> 
> There is, of course, that exasperating, invisible-scarred Harry in 
the 
> deluxe edition of PS/SS; JKR drawings are canon, no?  (Though they 
can 
> be wrong, like her assertion that there are 1000 students at 
Hogwarts 
> <bg>.)  Perhaps we've all been missing it because we've been looking 
> in the middle of his forehead where she puts a bit of bangs, and 
it's 
> actually over his right eye?

IIRC there isn't anything in the canon that specifically describes the 
location and orientation of the scar. All it says is that the scar is 
thin and lightening bolt shaped on his forehead. It doesn't say if the 
scar is vertically oriented or horizontally oriented or tips to the 
right or left. Nor does it say where on the forehead it is, other than 
that Harry's hair covers it at times.

Personally, I like to picture the scar as vertically oriented and in 
the middle of his forehead with the upper most part beginning 
just at the hairline and the lowest point of the lightening bolt shape 
ending just between his eyebrows. (The anatomical name for the area 
between your eyebrows is the glabella.) I think Voldemort was aiming 
for Harry right between the eyes (or maybe at Harry's eyes). By virtue 
of being an infant at the time, Harry's head (like all infants) was 
disproportionally larger that the rest of his body and the forehead is 
generally more prominent. But being an infant Harry's head was still 
smaller than an adult's and Voldemort didn't adjust for that when he 
took aim. From a forensic point of view, it's a shame Cedric's face 
wasn't described after he was killed as it would be interesting if he 
had a similar wound.

Milz