Clues

Pauli noted earlier the news of the last word of book 7 being "scar" and how important a role the scar must play, so I just thought I would note some of the other clues What Lightning? The chapter was called, "The Lightning Struck Tower" ... but there was no lightning .... but there was a dark mark. Voldemort left a dark mark on Harry ... a lightning shaped scar. Something(s) huge is/are hidden in that chapter. Last night in finding that line of Dumbledore trusting Harry, it's the last line before the LAST chapter. The opening lines of that chapter, looking at them now, are thick. There is stuff reminiscent of the Via Dolorosa adaptation by Tolkien in LOTR where he has Sam as Simon of Cyrene, carrying the burden of the ring by carrying Frodo ("Harry heaved Dumbledore onto the top of the nearest boulder" ... "Dumbledore's weight still upon him,"). In general the chapter seems from the very outset to bear down on you, just like what you had once thought was "neat magic" - apparition - you now find out that in within the context of the events that are about to unfold, the power of this magic is a "horrible compression." From the very beginning the chapter has a heavy tone where everything takes on a quality of suffering. Overthrow Interestingly, in The Hidden Key to Harry Potter, in the "Chart of Symbol Types" Granger uses lightning as an example of the "signal" symbol type. I think the scar is a sign that Harry will be the downfall of Voldemort, i.e. will beat him. Voldemort fashioned the dark mark itself, the skull and serpent. Harry, however, receives a sign of a God-given thing - lightning being kind of God speaking through natural revelation - instead of the dark mark. Add to that the fact that the chapter is titled such ... I think it is a foreshadowing of Harry vanquishing Voldemort because he has the lightening scar rather than the dark mark (which fits nicely with Pauli's theory on the Scar being involved in the absorption of horcruxes.) Voldemort tries to impress his dark mark on the world, and in the end all he can do is put a mark of the real power in nature on a boy who he makes his own downfall by doing so. I think there may even be material foreshadowings of the final confrontations ... think of everyone who is on that roof: Snape and Draco, The Death Eaters as representative of Voldemort, and Dumbledore - who may be represented by Fawkes in book 7, as a revealer and teacher for Harry ... and maybe also by Dumbledore's Army: Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville and Luna.