Curse Scars

katefrost777 stonehaven at hotkey.net.au
Sun Aug 22 12:30:14 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 110932

With great respect, may I point out that the avarda kedavra curse 
leaves no scar/trace/mark at all, so maybe we shouldn't assume that 
Harry's scar is a *curse* scar at all. Other curses leave all sorts 
of marks/scars (as seen on Moody), but not the AK curse. With his 
mother's *protection* on him at the time as well, Harry should really 
not have been marked by LV's AK curse in any way. 

When the AK curse rebounded back onto LV it may have done something 
to LV, which in turn caused the scar on Harry. Could the rebounded 
curse (powerful as it must have been) have split LV in two, with one 
part of him then colliding with Harry's head and being 
combined/absorbed into him, thereby creating the scar?

If the final word of Book 7 is indeed scar, and with JKR assuring us 
that we should be thinking more about why LV didn't die at the time 
he tried to kill Harry (Edinburgh Book Reading) then this particular 
incident is holding some very deep secrets, and to accept that the 
scar was just a mark from a curse appears to be a bit too simple.

I also note that when DD and Fudge are talking (end of GoF) only 
Fudge refers to it as a *curse* scar, DD does not. 

Thanks, love the site,
katefrost777

P.S. Can I make a really weird suggestion here: Does anybody imagine 
the shape of the scar being such that it could be opened up, like two 
pointy doors? (Apologies to the squeamish)








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