[HPforGrownups] Trailer: Scar

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 21721

Amy Z 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).

Bother not! 'Twas I that posted that last tidbit. When Fred Bode, who
did the artwork that's out there on the puzzles and such, did that
signing at the WB store in San Antonio, I went, and I asked him about
the alignment of the scar (horizontal vs. vertical). He then relayed
that he'd had a conversation with JKR about it, and that she had said
that in her mind's eye, she saw baby Harry flinching away as the spell
was cast, so the scar is, in fact, diagonal. So it was secondhand but
still pretty direct; I don't know if Steve deemed it canon or not.

However, alas, nowhere did we discuss on- or off-center.

--Amanda

P.S. - If any of you kindred anal spirits really do want to check the
archives, I think it the thread was under HP Artist in San Antonio or
something to that effect.


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