Lily, Voldemort, AK and the atomic bomb analogy

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 144802

Carol:
> Without getting into the A-bomb analogy, I want to ask a question. 
If,
> as we know, a normal AK doesn't make a mark of any kind, might the 
cut
> on baby!Harry's forehead (which later healed into a scar) be caused 
by
> the repelled AK *bursting out* of his forehead as the result of his
> mother's sacrifice? 
*(snip)*
(Carol again):
> the ring Horcrux cracked when
> DD released the soul bit and simultaneously released the protective
> curse that attacked him through his wand hand. The crack is not a
> mark of a Horcrux, IMO, but an indication that the Horcrux is
> destroyed.

Ceridwen again:
Can we play?  Harry has a scar.  It's probably the most famous scar 
in literature at the moment.  It has influenced the design of the 
lettering on the the books and in the films, it defines the series, 
and famously, it is the last word in the last chapter of the last 
book.  It is seen by all the knowledgeable WW characters as the mark 
of the one and only failed AK.

The Gaunts had a ring.  It once belonged to Salazar (Salizar?) 
Slytherin, their ancestor.  Tom Riddle got that ring and made it into 
a horcrux.  Dumbledore got that ring and removed the soul-piece.  The 
ring cracked, either during or after the soulbit's removal.  A 
similar destruction had to happen to the diary - stabbed, killed, by 
a basilisk's fang.  Cracked.  Pierced.  Irreparably damaged.

Lily Potter stood in front of her infant son to protect his life with 
her own.  She was killed for her effort, and as we discussed in the A-
Bomb posts, her soul was torn from her body.  We, or at least I, 
speculated that if the force of the AK was like an A-Bomb, Lily's 
essence would have been blown back against the first solid object it 
came to - Baby!Harry.  Which then provided a shield, like paneling 
blown against a bunker, against the subsequent attack on Harry 
himself.

We know the AK leaves no mark.  Only the stunned, or frightened, 
expression on its victim's face.  So no, the AK would not have made 
the scar.  I did mean to imply the AK *deflecting* left the scar.  
Skimmed off and ripped as it went, like moving for an air-gun 
innoculation.

Which seems possible to me.  But you, and Jen, and probably others, 
have brought up something else.  Every horcrux we've seen which has 
been de-souled has a mark or damage.  A split stone, a punctured 
book.  What do we know about the AK, anyway?

Just playing, mind you, could the AK pack enough power to blow Lily's 
essence into Harry and out his forehead, making him, for just that 
split instant, something *akin* to a horcrux for Lily's entire soul?  
Before anyone points it out, I know that a true horcrux can only be 
made by the splitting of a soul through murder.  But I just don't 
have a word for a soul receptacle that wasn't made that way.  We, or 
at least I, speculated that Lily's soul and powers were plastered 
against Harry like a shield.  Forced in, then forced out (by LV's 
transfered powers?), creating the scar attesting to the fact that the 
soul had passed through.

Just playing again, could the recently damaged shards of LV's soul 
have ripped through Harry, exiting through the scar?  Again, a piece 
of damage created by the release of a soul bit, and leaving 
Parselmouth and maybe other powers, in its wake?

JKR has mentioned that Harry having Lily's eyes is a significant 
fact, but we haven't seen that yet that I remember.  But, the scar!

The scar is significant throughout the series.  And now we have two 
items which we know had to be damaged to release a bit of soul.  It 
probably could be a coincidence, but with one book left, I find that 
hard to believe.

No matter what the actual reason for the scar, I do think the AK's 
power could well be said to have the power of an A-Bomb.

No matter the AK's power or the way it works or delivers its curse, 
Harry has a scar which was the direct evidence of the failed AK.  
Something had to have happened at Godrick's Hollow that ties in with 
the information we already have.  To be destroyed, there must be a 
crack or piercing of the horcrux to let the soul piece escape.  Harry 
has a scar.  Harry has 'inherited' some of LV's powers.  What exactly 
went on with that AK at GH?  Does it tie in with the horcruxes and 
the sign of their destruction?  Or is there something else that makes 
his scar so significant?

Ceridwen, who feels she ought to add 'Tune in next week, same Bat-
time, same Bat-channel'.