Scar as Ancient Rune

[Talisman]

No: HPFGUIDX 82210

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Arya" <dequardo at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Talisman" 
<talisman22457 at y...> 
> wrote:
> >> > By the way, we know Lily's "sacrifice" didn't leave a 
physical mark  on Harry. (SS 299) I suggest to you that the scar on 
Harry's head is indeed the defensive rune "eihwaz," (OoP 715) and a 
consequence of Dumbledore's charm. This, of course, implies pre-
meditation and orchestration. (Wouldn't do to have LV come knocking 
when Lily was upstairs taking a nap and Harry was bouncing on his 
Daddy's knee in the living room.) 
>

Talisman interjects, looking perplexed:
Is the following section your idea Arya?  It certainly isn't mine, 
but I think the way your previous message is laid out it looks like 
it resumed my text (which it did not).   

>Arya? wrote?:  
> But you see, Harry had the scar/cut on his head already when 
Hagrid brought him to the Dursleys and Dumbledore.  Yes, we do have 
the missing 24 hours of time between Halloween when Lily and James 
were  killed and Nov 2 in the morning when Harry os found on the 
doorstep, but still, it having been a "cut" on his head, are you 
really suggesting that Dumbledore *carved* it into his head?

Talisman: 
I certainly don't think DD carved anything into H's head.  The 
Eihwaz is the effect of LV's A.K. bouncing off DD's previously 
applied runic shield charm.  Sheesh.  

Arya:
And Dumbledore clearly calls it a scar when he compares it to the 
one he has on his knee of the London underground.  

Talisman: 
?????? 
Well, it IS a scar.  I don't think anyone doesn't know that.  What 
is your point? That a scar can't be rune shaped? That a scar can't 
be rune shaped for a reason? You don't have any canon for that.


Arya:
I do see merit and links to the scar being the actual shape and with 
some conducting ability of the properties inheirent in the rune, 
however.  I see it more likely that it the scar, was a marl from the 
curse that failed still, and may just have manifested itself in the 
form of a rune.  

Talisman:
Well, then you are obviously among the "plot by coincidence, JKR 
doesn't really have a point when she writes" crowd.  Have a nice 
day. 
> 
>Arya: 
> Eihwaz (linked to Yew--voldemort's wand) and immortality and power 
> may be a good choice as could be the Sowulo (lightening bolt 
shape) rune that is linked to the Sun (Harry's astrological sign is 
Leo, the sign of the sun), honor (a gryffindor trait), the life-
force (particularly coincidental for "The Boy Who Lived"), and it 
also linked to a mythological "sword of flame" or "cleansing fire" 
(Goes with Gryffindors being the House of the element Fire and his 
scar always seems to burn).

Talisman:
Well, yes, others have speculated about various runes--including 
Sowulo--in the very recent past. As Corinthum pointed out to some of 
them(and I thank her again)Eihwaz JUST HAPPENS to be the one JKR 
brought to our attention, it also JUST HAPPENS to mean defense and 
it also JUST HAPPENS to resemble a lightning bolt. Also, DD JUST 
HAPPENS to tell us that the blood-protection shield is the result of 
a defensive charm (which would mean an enchantment, not a carving)
that DD worked on H.

If you re-read ##81908 and 82031 with all of this in mind you may 
arrive at a closer understanding of what I was saying.

Talisman, looking for a spa-sized tub of murtlap essense.