One of my professors believes that Harry's scar is actually an 'S'. Not a nice curvy S, but one in the style of the the **** (Um, guess I can't say that word. Okay, the 'National Socialist Party') SS. Three jagged lines with no curve. In that shape it could be mistaken for a lightening bolt.

Rowling mentions again and again the lightning bolt scar on Harry's head. We never really get any proof that it is. All the pictures on the covers show it as a lightening bolt, but those are just artist's interpretations.

In the movies it looks like a backwards version of the S I described above. But once again, the movies fudge on some details.

It might be that Rowling never corrected anyone because it isn't that important overall or could give away that Harry is possibly a horcrux. Either way, it is interesting to think about it.

I just had a quick look in PS to find the first description of Harry's scar. Page 20 of the adult paperback version published in 1998 says:



I think this is fairly conclusive and I never really got that impression that it might have been a Sig Rune and I really wouldnt have thought that JK would have Nat Soc imagery associated with her hero.

I have been saying it might be the Sig Rune for several weeks--it looks exactly like it in fact. The scar is "shaped" like a lightning bolt--so is the Sig Rune. Just because it is an "S" doesnt mean it is not pictorially lightning-shaped.

JKR would want National Socialism associated with her hero because the scar is given to him by the evil dark lord--evil leaves terrible scars, figuratively and in reality. It is a mark on him from evil, not a sign of his good. Like the tattooed numbers on the arms of the victims of the camps, or the tattoos on the arms of the DE who become LV's willing spiritual victims.

In Nat Soc Germany, the Sig rune is the sign of the loyal bodyguard.

I did feel it would make more sense that if JK was sticking to the parallel, then she would have applied it to the DEs.

My thinking was that when LV cast the spell, I had always imagined that the spell came out in a beam rather like a laser beam but slightly more wild and the effect of the rebound would cause the scar to form in such a way.

I thought it would tie in with the "Harry is a horcrux" theories. We don't know how horcruxes are created, perhaps the S stands for Slytherin.

I think it is just like Harry having his mother's eyes. JK brings it up over and over again because it is important. Just because it's "lightning shaped" doesn't mean that it is actually a lightning bolt.

Also, I don't know if there is a National Socialist connection, I just used it as an example to describe how it could be an S.

But the SS were not just a loyal bodyguard, they were the mythic center of the elite race. They were specially selected, privileged, and missioned to the ideological and racial aims of Hitler's cultural transformation within Germany and his imperial plans beyond.

I think that fits with the DE, and ideologically with LV.

I think its just a lightning bolt. Nothing more, nothing less. Its just a scar.

Well we know it isn't 'just a scar'. It's a link from Harry to Voldemort. It's slightly more significant than what's left on my finger after a bad cut. It's highly significant and I believe it's likely to be a big plot point in the final book.

And once again, I don't mean to suggest any N-a-z-i imagery, I'm just suggesting that it isn't, in fact, a lightning bolt, but an S.

Rowling brings up the 'lightning shape' often. That could suggest there's something more to it.

I am pretty sure that it is just lightning bolt shaped I don't think that J.K. would have gone into such detail. And did you think that maybe she kept describing the scar was so that people who started ot of order would know what it looked like. I don't think that Rowling would have add National Socialist symbolizm in a book basicly meant for young adults even though alomst everyone reads them because they are so good

well on one of the hard back covers, on the spine of the sixth book, apparently it shows a ring with a lightning bolt shaped crack on it. maybe that is the "symbol" for all of Lord voldy's horcuxes. or maybe the lightning bolt means that it has been destroyed, so maybe harry was a horcrux but now hes not...

I agree that it will have a significant importance for Book 7, but I am not sure what that significance is. I also do not think that it was a horcux.

iceskBerqueen8: "maybe that is the "symbol" for all of Lord voldy's horcuxes. or maybe the lightning bolt means that it has been destroyed, so maybe harry was a horcrux but now hes not..."

Also, if it resembles a horcrux and was destroyed, then how was it destroyed. The only time that it could have been made was when Voldemort killed someone (Lily) and then split his soul into the horcrux (Harry). So again, when was it destroyed? He has had this scar since he was a little kid. (we know this because he the scar description happens before he goes back into the wizarding world) This is a good idea, but I can't work out in my head how it would work. If you have a better idea, please share it with us.

I guess it could be an S, but I dont think there would be such emphasis on it if it wasnt, unless it was the tactic to make us stray from wat it was...

But i thin its lightning becaus noone has ever said it was an S, or ever even notced it untill this... idk, shall see soon

Mm Im pretty sure it is a lightening bolt. In the movies and books,it always describes how it is a lightening bolt,it shows it on the covers of the books,and in the movies its aways drawn on as a lightening bolt ( I also noticed that it seems to be drawn on differnt sides of Daniel's head throughout the movies.)
By the way Muggle Slayer,love the pictures.