Harry Potter fan claims scar isn't actually a lightning bolt
Now that we're living in a world without new books and films about the life of Harry Potter to look forward to every year, all we have to keep us going is the circulation of a new Harry Potter fact on social media to keep us going.
Earlier this month it was a tidbit we'd rather not know about how witches and wizards used to go to the bathroom that got Potter fans talking, and now a fan has posited another theory that Harry's famous scar isn't actually a lightning bolt after all.
Yep, as pointed out by a fan on Twitter, Harry's lightening bolt-shaped scar is shaped that way because it's actually the wand movement of the Avada Kedavra curse that Voldemort was trying to cast on him when he was a baby.
Did you know Harry Potter’s scar isn’t a lightning bolt, but actually the hand motion to cast Avada Kedavra pic.twitter.com/B8ig9dLGFg
- Today Years Old (@todayyearsoldig) January 10, 2019
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Of course, this is one of those pieces of trivia that has been doing the rounds online for years – here's a Reddit thread from 2015, for example – but for those fans who are only just hearing this one, it's certainly proving game-changing:
Did you know harry potter’s scar is not a lighting bolt but the hand motion to cast avada kadavra ; the killing curse ?
Yeah me neither i just did pic.twitter.com/ClMfmKavbN- Dodz (@deeofhousestark) January 15, 2019
- the misfit💀 (@goodorgodd) January 14, 2019
- Mabe ✨ (@mabe_rogers) January 17, 2019
- LesBeMums (@LesBeMums) January 14, 2019
As for the official word from JK Rowling on Potter's uniquely-shaped scar, back in 2007 she revealed in a fan chat that she chose the lightning bolt shape because it was "cool".
"I couldn't have my hero sport a doughnut-shaped scar," she added.
Still, it wouldn't be the first time the Wizarding World threw an unexpected twist our way to keep us guessing, and JK Rowling is pretty good at hiding them in plain sight, too – just look at this nod to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald's big twist, uploaded to her website two whole years before the film was released in cinemas.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will be released on DVD on March 18. You can pre-order it now.
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