Harry's Scar---Runic Significance?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 191565


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Eric Oppen <technomad at ...> wrote:
>
> ....
> 
> He points out that the scar is exactly in the shape of the "Sig"  
> rune---which signifies "victory."  In other words, Harry's marked
> as an inevitable winner.
> 
> Has anybody else ever commented about that?  Was it deliberate on  
> JKR's part?  (Does she even know about runes as such, other than that  
> they exist?)
> 

Steve:

We have discussed Runes several times before, but I don't recall if that particular fact was ever discovered. 

However, thanks to our good friend Wikipedia, we can find out just about anything. Here is the Wikipedia entry for the "Sig" rune, and sure enough it looks like Harry's scar. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sowil%C5%8D

http://whisperingworlds.com/runic/sowilo.php

"Magickal Uses = Energy, strength, success, healing, fertility"

The "Sig" rune also has several other names as you will see - Sowilo (So-We-Low), Sol, sigel, sugil, ..... Though many of the vowels have accents that I can't reproduce here. The symbol stands for the SUN, and attracts Victory and Success. 

I wonder it that was intentional on JKR's part, or just a happy accident?

JRK must have an amazing depth of knowledge to have come up with so many obscure references. 

Steve/bboyminn