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[justcarol67]

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Robert wrote:
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> Hagrid probably took Harry to Hogwarts, as someone else suggested.
Harry was hit by a rebounding AK curse and has a scar as evidence.
That means when Hagrid found him he must have been unconscious and
bleeding from the  wound. 
> 
> After talking to Sirius and  filling him in on what Harry's 
condition was, he took him to Mdme. Pomfrey, or whoever was in charge
of the  school's infirmary, and there the wound was treated and closed
until it was the scar DD and MM see at Privet Drive later.  There had
to be an open wound in order for there to be a scar. If it was me, I
would have told Sirius to back off and taken that injured baby
straight to a healer. And Sirius, the godfather, gave up his
motorcycle so Hagrid could get there as fast as possible.

Carol responds:
FWIW, it was Voldemort who was hit by the rebounded curse, not Harry,
who was hit by the actual AK, which was deflected onto Voldemort (very
much like a Protego spell, only Protego doesn't work for
Unforgiveables. And Harry's head was still cut open, not healed into a
scar, when Hagrid brought him to Privet Drive: "Under a tuft of
jet-black hair over his forehead they could see a curiously shaped
cut, like a bolt of lightning" (SS Am. ed. 15). I happen to believe
that the cut was caused by the spell bursting *out* of Harry's head
because of Lily's sacrificial Love magic. An incoming AK does not make
a mark of any kind. 

I also happen to believe, though I can't prove it, that Dumbledore
took Harry not to Madame Pomfrey but to someone who knew a lot more
about Dark Magic and how to heal it than she does, someone who would
make sure that little Harry was not possessed or otherwise suffering
ill effects from the failed AK: Severus Snape. I think that whatever
Snape did that night is the reason Dumbledore trusted Snape completely
and the reason Hagrid found it so difficult to believe that Snape had
killed Dumbledore.

I doubt, BTW, that Hagrid filled Sirius Black in on Harry's condition
or anything else about that night. All he knew was that DD had sent
him to rescue Harry, that he was not to give him to anyone but
Dumbledore, that James and Lily were dead. Black could see that much
with his own eyes (perhaps somee Voldiebits, too), and he had a lot
clearer idea than Hagrid did as to what had really happened. When
Hagrid refused to hand over Harry, Black did what he thought was the
next best thing: he sought revenge on the traitorous Wormtail. He
didn't need his motorcycle because he knew he'd be on the run from DEs
or Aurors or both and the motorcycle would be too easily spotted. He
might as well give it to Hagrid. (Originally, JKR wrote "Young Sirius
Black lent it [to] me," but that was apparently changed after readers
pointed out inconsistencies between SS/PS and PoA.)

Carol, who got sidetracked by a fanfic about the young Marauders,
Lily, Severus, and (oops!) Lucius, all age fifteen, reading the first
chapter of SS/PS in detention--and I never read fanfic!

http://www.angelfire.com/wizard/guests/gMST01.htm

Carol, agreeing that the scar resulted from an open wound but seeing
the rest of the picture rather differently