VERY curious!! Re: Another curse scar?

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 96289

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hitesh" <hiteshl at v...> wrote:
> I wonder if this has come up before, but here I go anyway. In GoF,
> (Bloomsbury paperback edition, chapter 36, pages 612-613),in midst 
of
> his confrontation with Dumbledore and Harry, we have a curious
> statement from Fudge.
> 
> <Quote>
> 
> Fudge had taken half a step back from Dumbledore, but he looked no
> less stubborn. 'You will forgive me, Dumbledore, but I've heard of a
> curse scar acting as an alarm bell before...'
> 
> <End Quote>
> 
> It is obvious from the context that he is not talking of Harry's 
scar.
> Is there some other scar in the canon that I can't recollect right
> now? And if it is indeed a clue to some mystery, my inference is 
that
> there was some other scar in the past. Dumbledore believed it to be 
a
> secret connection to some evil person and was proved wrong. 
> 
> Anyone who can shed light on this? Thanks.

AmanitaMuscaria now :
That is VERY strange indeed!
I'd always read Fudge's line as '..I've never heard ..', which to me 
made more sense.
Now, looking at my British copies, paperback and hardcover of GoF, 
the quote is as you describe, which to me sounds odd.
But in the US paperback version, I have (p607) 
"You'll forgive me, Dumbledore, but I've never heard of a curse scar 
acting as an alarm bell before...."
I'd read the UK version several times before I got the US version, so 
it was only my brain providing the extra word initially ... 
Just a misprint? Or is Fudge talking about DD's scar resembling 
the 'map of the London underground' or something else?

Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria