[HPforGrownups] Re:[HP4Grownups)OT Question

[kelly broughton]

No: HPFGUIDX 44144


--- Gail Bohacek <gandharvika at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys...I don't know how off-topic this question is, but I've got
> this 
> bet going on down at work here and I need somebody to help me out...
> 
> Where in the books does Dumbledore tell Harry that "Scars come in handy"
> and 
> that he himself has a scar on his knee that looks like the London 
> Underground?  I remember reading it but, gosh darn, I don't know where. 
> I 
> was *sure* it was in CoS, but I've just went through it to no avail. 
> I'm 
> just now skimming through PoA.  Am I missing something here?
> 
> Thanx
> 
> -Gail B.
> 

Someone has probrably already answered this by now, but here goes:

Dumbledore actually tells this to McGonagall, on page 15 of the first
chapter of PS (US edition;1999):

 "Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall bent forward over the blundle of
blankets. Inside, just visible, was a baby boy, fast asleep. Under a tuft
of jet-black hair over his forehead they could see a curiously shaped cut,
lke a bold of lighting.
 "Is that where-?" whispered Professor McGonagall.
 "Yes," said Dumbledore. "He'll have that scar forever."
 "Couldn't you do something about it, Dumbledore?"
 "Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself
above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground. Well-
give him here, Hagrid- we'd better get this over with."

-kel



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