DE Name Origin, & some Dark Mark

[alhewison]

No: HPFGUIDX 36526

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> wrote:
> > being destroyed.
> > 
> 
> I like that theory. A part of Snape died because of Harry... 
Explains 
> a bit of his hating Harry during the Sorting Feast. Also - There 
were 
> Snape and Quirrell and that Voldemort-head, when Harry had his 
first 
> experience of a hurting scar. No mention of it when in Quirrell's 
> presence in the Leaky Cauldron. First time is Snape AND Quirrell. 
> Snape is *looking* at Harry when the scar hurts first time! I think 
it 
> took both for a chance. Later, it took one of them - Harry's scar 
hurt 
> in Potion's exam...
> 
> There is, I think, a lot more about Harry's scar... Maybe it'll now 
> burn around Death-Eaters, too? Poor Harry, he won't be able to take 
> potions without getting a head-ache...


I agree that there will be alot more about the scar in the future 
books. 

But I've got a different understanding of why Harry's scar first 
hurt. I thought that it didn't hurt when he first met Quirrell at 
Diagon Alley because Voldemort had not yet possessed Quirrell (he 
possessed him after the failed raid on the bank). In the Sorting hat 
scene, I thought that Quirrell had turned away from Harry so that the 
turban (and therefore Voldemort) could get a good look at Harry. Thus 
it was when Voldemort looked at Harry that he experienced pain. It 
had nothing to do with the hateful look that Snape was giving him. 
Though of course none of this became clear until later.

Any other views?

Ali