The Final Sentence

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 158385

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Clifford Vander Yacht" <CliffVDY at ...> wrote:

Diego:
> > > The problem is that JKR has already stated quite clearly that the last
> > > word of book 7 would be "scar".

Jan:
> >  oh, pardon my ignorance, I'm sorry..
> >  how about

> > "And now, just like Harry, we each have a scar."

Cliff:
> Is that Ginny saying that after banging her head on her new kitchen
> cabinet (US cupboard) door?
> Actually, Harry's scar should heal and disappear after the death of LV.
> Cliff, LOL.

Geoff:
Should it? Canon suggests otherwise.

'Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall. bent forward over the 
bundle of blankets. Inside, just visible, was a baby boy, fast asleep. 
Under a tuft of jet-black hair over his forehead they could see a c
uriously shaped cut, like a bolt of lightning.

"Is that where - ?" whispered Professor McGonagall.

"Yes," said Dumbledore. 'He'll have that scar for ever."

"Couldn't you do something about it, Dumbledore?"  

"Even if I could, I wouldn't..."'

(PS "The Boy Who LIved" p.17 UK edition)