Last word of series

[Debbie McLain <debmclain@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50154

"abhamghp <galadriel1 at m...>" wrote:
>  When JKR revealed that the last word of book 7 may be "scar" it 
> seemed to me that people were very eager to jump on the theory that 
> LV was defeated by Harry and that his scar disappeared as a 
result.  
> I have a slightly different theory.  I read in a chat transcript 
> that in book seven, JKR feels she has to explore in an epilogue 
what 
> happens to the surviving characters in their post Hogwarts days.  
> This says to me that Harry's scar will not disappear, as the last 
> word of the book will occur long after LV has been defeated.  Also, 
> in the first chapter of SS, Dumbledore tells McGonagall that Harry 
> will have that scar forever.  Could it be that, in Harry's adult 
> life, following his defeat of Voldie, he holds his son, who looks 
in 
> every aspect just like him, except for the conspicuos absence of a 
> lightning bolt shaped scar?  Wouldn't the absence of such scar 
> symbolize the gift of peace in the wizarding world that Harry and 
> his friends have given subsequent generations?

Me:

This is EXACTLY what I thought too. Just like Harry looks exactly 
like his father (with the exception of his green eyes), I feel his 
son will look exactly like him, but without the scar.

Now the question remains...will we ever meet his wife, or is she 
doomed to be in the epilogue too? ("Harry met a girl, fell in love, 
and married her. When their first child was born, Harry held his son 
and noticed he looked exactly like him, only there was no scar. The 
End).

Someone wrote a while back that the line they thought it would be was 
McGonagall: "It was handy, that scar."  That's my second runner-up, 
but I'm sticking with the birth of his first child/son.

-Debbie