Another curse scar?

[laylalast]

No: HPFGUIDX 54258

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erisedstraeh2002" 
<erisedstraeh2002 at y...> wrote:

> 
> JKR was asked about Harry's scar in a Houston Chronicle article 
(see: 
> http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/text.htm):
> 
> Q: "What is the meaning behind Harry's lightning bolt scar?" 
> 
> JKR: "There are some things I can tell you about it and some things 
I 
> can't. I wanted him to be physically marked by what he has been 
> through. It was an outward expression of what he has been through 
> inside. I gave him a scar and in a prominent place so other people 
> would recognize him. It is almost like being the chosen one, or the 
> cursed one, in a sense. Someone tried to kill him; that's how he 
got 
> it. I chose the lightning bolt because it was the most plausible 
> shape for a distinctive scar. As you know, the scar has certain 
> powers, and it gives Harry warnings. I can't say more than that, 
but 
> there is more to say."
> 
> Based on this interview excerpt, I don't expect to see anyone else 
> with a curse scar like Harry's, because JKR is telling us that she 
> wanted Harry's scar to be "distinctive" and to show that he's 
> the "chosen" or "cursed" one.
> 
> This interview excerpt does suggest that there's more to Harry's 
scar 
> than we've found out about so far, though!

Thanks for the interview excerpt, I haven't seen it before 
(obviously). When reading this, I agree that there will not be anyone 
with such a scar as Harry, but OTOH, as I see it, it leaves open the 
possibility that some kind of other scar (different shape, different 
way as to how someone got it) is in existence. On someone's (long)
bottom, perhaps?(*grin*) 

However, I was not thinking about the Longbottoms in the first place 
when I considered who might have another scar. As LV tells us in the 
graveyard scene, he went through or did several experiments to 
achieve immortality. There is no canon (yet) to imply that he used 
humans in those experiments, but in ancient dark rituals in the RW 
such human sacrifices were made to try to achieve that result.

To continue theorizing, what if someone's relative was used for such 
an experiment and this relative continued to live, but hardly as more 
than a living shell? When I think of this plausibility, the words of 
JKR spring to my mind that Harry will investigate death in a 
different way (not the exact quote I know but you get my drift), and 
I wonder whether this kind is perhaps meant? Not the physical death 
but the 'death' of the person inside?

Layla