[HPforGrownups] Re: MOVIE: Vanity Fair October Issue (long)

[Jennifer]

No: HPFGUIDX 25785

mellienel2 at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> >
> > Dan as Harry is great. It's a cheesy grin, yes, but it's a *nice*
> cheesy
> > grin. I'm still not convinced about the scar not being centered on
> his
> > forehead, but there we are :D His hair is suitably messy in this
> picture,
> > I'm happy to say!
> 
> You know what I"m not convinced on? maybe we have a dermatologist who
> can clear this up...but if the scar stretched fromt he top of the
> forhead to the bottom when he was little, would it grow as he got
> older? Wuoldn't there be unblemished skin on top and bottom? Does
> scar tissue actually stretch?
> 
> I guess it will be att'd to magic.

I'm not a dermatologist, but my brother & I have had a few small facial
scars.  They move outwards and (especially if the scar is earned in
early childhood) tend to fade quite a bit...something like stretching so
that it doesn't really appear to be a scar, I think.  The movement tends
to go out from the nose for some reason -- chin scars disappear towards
the throat, nose scars move all over the place, forehead scars recede
into the hairline.  My scar was just over my eyebrow near my nose
originally (happened around 10 yrs old), but disappeared into my
hairline never to be seen again before I hit high school ('bout 4 years
later).

I don't remember about the scar covering so much to begin with, but it
does make some sense that it would fade to what it is.  Perhaps all
we're seeing of the original location is the part that was near his
nose?
-- 
Jenny K.

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