And now for something completely different...

[docmara1]

No: HPFGUIDX 137868

> Ersatz Harry:
> Quite the opposite, I think.  If the cut is on the back of his 
> right hand, then he presumably wrote it there with his left.  
> Magic or no, it would be a rare person who could use his writing 
> hand to write on that same hand's back.
 

Don't have the book at hand, but what I recall is that *at the same 
time* as Harry was writing on the parchment, his writing hand was 
bleeding -- the blood from his hand supplied the "ink" for the quill.  
All of this with his right hand.

Mara