Is Harry a metamorphagus?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90734

Weasley4Granger:
But I'm not totally convinced as Harry has many times tried to hide
his scar with his fringe, if he could (even by accident or without
realising it) wouldn't he physically make the scar disappear

Anne:
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The scar, of course, being a result somehow of Harry's altercation
with old Moldy Voldy when he was an infant, might be resistant to any
magic that tried to remove it, even metamorphing, simply because it
itself has certain magical properties that cannot be over-ridden (this
is just an opinion of mine...and I could be way off base...).
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Carol:
IIRC, he likes his scar--it's the one thing that distinguishes him
from everyone else (remember him looking at it in the mirror in SS/PS
before he knows he's a wizard?--he just doesn't like people staring at
it. Dumbledore says something early on about curse scars being useful,
and I think Harry understands that by now. He knows that when the scar
hurts, he's sensing Voldemort's emotions, and he probably understands
that it was the channel through which the dreams came to him as well.
So even if he could, I don't think he'd try to get rid of it.

Also, even though Madam Pomfrey can mend broken noses and shrink
overly long teeth, i don't think it's all that easy (if you're not a
metamorphagus and I don't think Harry is) for a witch or wizard to
change his or her appearance. Remember Eloise Midgen, who blasted her
nose off trying to clear up her acne? Also, if Harry's scar is not
only the "mark" Voldemort gave him but (as I suspect) a protective
rune resulting from a defensive charm his mother placed on him before
her death, no magic of any kind could remove it. Even if he were a
metamorphagus, it would probably show up, just as McGonagall's glasses
show up as markings on her face when she's a cat. If glasses are an
essential part of McG's identity, the scar is even more integral to
Harry's.

Carol