The last word ("scar")

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 171364

TK Kenyon:
> I'm rereading OotP, and we all know the "Two-Book Rule." 
> 
> I am reminded of the DE whose head gets shoved into the Big Jar of 
> Time, and his head transforms into a baby's head, then progresses 
to 
> a man's head, and back again. 
> 
> What if Harry, having been thoroughly devestated and emotionally 
> battered by his life, goes back and tries it again? 
> 
> What if Harry jumps into the Big Jar of Time, pre-gresses to get 
rid 
> of his VoldyScar (thus releasing the last Horcrux by making it as 
> though it never happened?), and is raised from infancy in a 
loving, 
> wizard household? 
> 
> That would satisfy the hero's journey that, at the end, the hero 
> like so many before him (Frodo, etc.,) dies or "goes West?" Rides 
> into the sunset? 

Magpie:
I don't think it would satisfy the hero's journey at all-on the 
contrary, it would undo all the progress Harry had made, as if he'd 
been hit with one of Lockhart's memory charms. I can't imagine Harry 
would want to be an infant, and he certainly wouldn't want to become 
a stranger, which is what he would become in this scenario.

-m