"I Must Not Tell Lies"

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 109185

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Drolet" <cldrolet at s...> 
wrote:
> pcaehill2 said:
> 
> >>>--Or could it figure as a reminder to Harry, if/when he is 
> particularly tempted to lie about something important?
> 
> I think there's a good chance that JKR will allude to it somehow, 
> since, as DD says, "Scars can come in handy."<<<
> 
> 
> DuffyPoo:
> Harry could stand to use it as a reminder not to lie.  He needs 
also to remember that DD told him "I am a sufficiently accomplished 
Legilimens myself to know when I am being lied to."  Remember that, 
Harry Potter!

I don't know. Harry, IIRC, doesn't lie all that often. Other than a 
few instances in PoA (when he tells Stan Shunpike that his name is 
Neville, when he tells Snape that he wasn't in Hogsmeade) I really 
can't think of any other places where he tells malicious, baldface 
lies. And those are places when I think a normal kid would find 
reason to lie: in trouble with a hated teacher and on the run from 
the law. He sometimes tells half truths (like about likiing Hagrid's 
cooking and classes) and doesn't always say what's on his mind (like 
in CoS when he resists the urge to tell DD about the Polyjuice 
Potion and everything) but we all do that. He's not a pathological 
liar in any sense of the word. The only thing that I can think that 
his scar would mean is that once again he is a marked man, only this 
time he has been marked by an oppressor. Looking at that scar 
Harry's gonna remember what it was like when he told the truth and 
wasn't believed, so maybe this will help him to listen better to 
others who say things that might not be believed by others. Looney 
Lovegood perhaps? 
Meri