Occasions Upon Which HP is Aware of a Sensation in His Scar

[Marcelle]

No: HPFGUIDX 96847

Although I should be studying for law school finals, I have been 
lost in the Potterverse for a week or so and have been thinking 
about Harry's scar and what it means *for readers* when he notices a 
sensation emanating from it.  

When I get out of school, I want to make a list of every single time 
in canon when Harry tells the reader that he is aware of his scar.  
>From that list, I hope to be able to discern what the exact 
significance of the scar sensation was at that particular time.  

My point in doing so is this: I believe that JKR is a tight writer 
and takes care to notice the significance of every word, especially 
when writing about Harry's scar, which I heard somewhere was 
supposed to be the last word of HP7.  However, upon listening to the 
audio books in the past few weeks, it seems that sometimes, 
especially in the first three novels, the scar tingles and prickles 
every now and then, and its not such a big deal.  But when the scar 
is acting as the conduit we now know it to be, Harry experiences 
great, ridiculous amounts of pain.  

I am interersted in JKRs word choice here - how many times have we 
read (or listened to in the audio books) that Harry thought his scar 
would burst open with pain, or the pain was so unbearable...

There are only so many ways in the English language to say the scar 
casused the kid a lot of pain.  What other superlatives can JKR use 
to describe the tactile expression of the scar?  Much like my 
sentiments on the fact that I don't see Trelawney's second 
prediction coming true, because its already been -that bad- and 
Voldy War II is supposed to be worse, how can the excruciating, 
horrible, nauseating pain in the scar be any worse - is the scar old 
hat, merely crying wolf to readers by now?  Isn't is supposed to be 
more important, more of a hint-hint to the reader?

celletiger, Wow, that was longer than it needed to be...