VERY curious!! Re: Another curse scar?

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 96294

"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?

Meri adds: 
I have just checked my US Hardcover edition and it confirms what the 
US paperback says: the word never is in place in Fudge's quote. If 
there is some meaning to the ommission, I am not sure what it could 
be, unless JKR made it intentionally. But what interests me is DD's 
Underground scar. Where did he get it? From Grindelwald? Or from LV? 
Does DD have some early warning system as well? What about Snape? 
Might he have some scar from a previous battle that acts as an alarm? 
Anyway, more questions, always more questions...
Meri - adding her two knuts