The Scar. Was: Choices - or not.

[whizbang]

No: HPFGUIDX 89677

Mandy here:
I subscribe to the theory that the scar was burned in to Harry's
> forehead by his mother casting the protection charm and not by 
> Voldemort casting the AK curse.  

Whizbang:

Lily never cast a protection charm!??!  She died to save Harry.  It 
was like the bond between a wizard and one who saves his life.  The 
traces of her love, the love that brought her to die for her child, 
are the protection that is still in Harry's blood.  Dumbledore cast 
a charm that kept Harry protected in the house of Lily's sister.  
But even that was based on Lily's blood, given for Harry.  It's a 
blood bond.

> Mandy:
> But it is interesting that the scar is in the shape of he "Eihwas" 
> rune symbol meaning protection.  

Whizbang:
The rune is the sowelo, representing the sun and the life force.  
The scar is Voldemort's life force which he lost when he tried to 
kill Harry. He was "less than the meanest ghost" forcing himself to 
stay alive.  Even he didn't know what he was.  But he was worse than 
dead.  
One or another of his immortality spells had transfered his life 
force to Harry' forehead in the form of the sowelo rune.  It is the 
scar which connects Harry and Voldemort, and is the mark that makes 
Harry Voldemort's equal.  Anything Voldemort can do, Harry is also 
capable of, even if he requires some training.

Mandy:
> It is possible that Lily could have put it there, and there were 
> no > witnesses, (that we know of so far) to the events in Godric's 
> Hollow that night anything could have happened.  It is easier for
> the WW to see the nasty scar on HP head and say `Oh!  `He Who Must 
> Not Be Named' did that."  Well perhaps he didn't.
> 
> Mandy.

Whizbang:  
Harry remembers the green flash followed by the pain in his forehead 
that the Dudleys had told him happened in the car crash.