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How do you want Harry's scar to look?
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I’d like something like this a little bit big and longer than what is usually depicted, maybe ending closer to his eyebrow. Make it so he can mostly hide it, but still somewhat visible at all times.
I think 1 or 5. JKR had it in the center of his head originally but admitted it looked better off to the side like they had it in the movies, I agree.
5 would be a cool change up though, something like this:
That is cool! and it's very noticeable so it's realistic that kids would stare, unlike in the films where his hair hides it 90% of the time. I love seeing fan art of more noticeable scars like that
It's cool, but maybe too much time in the makeup chair?
Stencil, airbrush, you got a stew baby
I stand corrected
This is how I imagined the scar as a child. Man that would be awesome!
I like how it looks like an actual scar, in the movies it always looked freshly scabbed over like it just happened.
Damn that’s a really nice render
Yeah for sure this one
Would be a great change if they’re going in a darker direction.
For me, that doesn’t look like lightning. I’d probably assume it was a weird birthmark or something if I saw someone like that.
For me it’s only #1 or #3, and #1 if I had to choose only one. I think the simple bolt has the immediate lightning recognition that Harry gets in the books when people see him.
Agreed. Doesn’t really look like a scar. Reminds me of veins or blood vessels.
It actually looks pretty close to the scars people get when they're struck by lightning.
Yes I thought it was veins as first. I like the shape but maybe correcting the color would help?
Yeah I would just think “something is wrong with that child’s forehead” and avoid staring. But if I saw a single lightning bolt? “Oh shit that’s Harry Potter!!!”
It's also hard to see
Yea, the thing is Harry, as a small child thought it looked like lightning. As an adult you know lightning actually looks like a bunch of offshoots but kids think lightning looks like 1-3 the way that kids think all houses are square.
Even as an adult, if I think of lightning, I picture a simple single lightning bolt, and that’s after growing up in Texas with huge thunderstorms. I guess sometimes childhood impressions stick 🤷🏻♀️
Culturally speaking the first version, which is the one used in the movies, immediately makes one think of lightning, it is true. But you can't tell me that this one doesn't remind you of a lightning bolt, come on... personal opinions are not up for debate, it's fine that you prefer the first version, which is the one we all know and are used to, but the version in this picture is not only shaped like a lightning bolt, it's also very similar to the scar it would leave if it struck you.
I mean, I can tell you that, because I did. You can’t tell me what I see and don’t see. Happy for you to have your own opinion & perspective, don’t try to dictate mine. 👌🏻
How touchy, It was certainly not an order. If in real life you take everything people tell you literally, poor you.
Don’t worry about me sweetie, I’m good. 👍🏻
I don't worry about you, I "worry" about your prickly reply which I never thought would be caused by my comment. It may be that English is not my first language, but I don't really feel that I wrote anything that deserved that kind of reply.
Don't worry, you didn't. That person has apparently never seen lightning before and is pressed about it
Yes, I absolutely love this one! It looking like a scalpel scar just doesn’t quite do it.
I’m hoping it’s like this! An actual lightening looking scar versus an actual lightening bolt.
I want this. It’s so cool!!
I love this. I only wish it were a bit darker or more raised to look like a scar rather than blood vessels. The realistic looking lighting is not something I ever envisioned, but I think it makes more sense and looks better.
Scar like that is realistic. I know we want that lighting bolt but it’ll look like a sticker.
This is sick, I’m for it.
id say 5 looks the best, but canonically the shape of the scar is actually the hand motion of the curse is it not? So 1.
I get that it would be the hand motion, but I really like the idea of the curse hitting his head as a blast and fading out, like a realistic lighting strike. It's more dramatic and I live for the DRAMA
But we don't know what the hand motion of Avada Kedavra is
I mean we kinda do now since we’ve had so many games teach us how to use it. Hogwarts Legacy in particular shows it’s the symbol used on 1
Is that really it?! How awesome!
Can we use Hogwarts Legacy as a reliable reference though? That game also says you can use Avada Kedavra at multiple people at the same time.
It says the individual character you play as with access to ancient magic skills has the ability to chain curse effects to multiple individuals. Nowhere in the books is that contradicted or anything so I don’t see why not? Simply have a murderous intent for all the people you are using the curse on and be an especially talented wizard
2 or 6.
I'd just like to believe that one of the greatest dark wizards of all time would have the precision aim to hit a baby in the center of his forehead with the curse.
Was it really the curse that caused the scar, or was it Voldemort’s soul latching itself into Harry’s body? AK usually doesn’t leave physical marks
AK usually kills people too lol. I always thought it was the curse not working that caused the scar
I think it would be cool if we had something like 5, something that looks more like a real lightning bolt
i agree, but i wonder if people would genuinely get really mad
but the realistic lightning version is arguably more realistic since it’ll splint from the blasting point of the spell
Yeah it's more lighting shape and I'd like the look of it, but it's canonical said that the classic z-lighting shape is the wandmovement for avada kedavra and that's the reason for Harry's shape. So according to that it should probably be one of the first ones
what about a cursive Z?
You just here for the memes?
No. Was actually serious. Cursive Z could look more like a "traditional Z" and a "lightning strike squiggle spread."
Yeah, would look cool I guess
Cursive Z looks like a loop de loop
I want it to be right in the middle of his head, not because I’m so hell bent on everything being 1:1 but because I want it to be very obvious on his forehead, I feel like in the movies it gets a bit lost on the side of his head. Although 5 looks cool too, I see a lot of fan art with styles like 5 or 6
This is my thinking. It gets lost in the movies which is frustrating because the scar is Harry’s most prominent feature along with his glasses.
5 for me every time, less neat and like a drawing a kid does of a lightning fork and more of a natural scar feel about it.
I like 6
I don’t like how the movies hid Harry’s scar off to the side. Whatever shape they decide on, it needs to be smack in the middle of his forehead. It needs to be immediately noticeable as it is in the books.
I've always imagined it through the middle, so I'd have to go with 2.
2, but a little more off center to the right. Not as off center as 3 though.
5 but bigger
5 and 6 are blistering takes I have never seen.
it’s how real lightning-strike scars look like. I honestly love it!
I know what they were going for.
It has an aura.
Still have mixed feelings looking at it.
the illustration looks a bit weird. but I think it could look really cool
I drew it on mspaint in 5 minutes haha, i just wanted people to get the vague idea :)
omg sorry I didn’t mean it like that - I just meant that it (6) could look even more like an actual scar than the classic one (1).
Like 5 or 6.
LOVE 5.
Lol, one of the first 3...5 and 6 look like Harry actually was in a car crash with his parents 😂
4 seems to be canon to the books. The dedication at the beginning of Deathly Hallows has that shape.
Also the original cover art for Goblet of Fire (at least in the US)
Isn’t it in the center of is forehead? So that would be two
5!
I think the bottom three looks way too zig zaggy so I'm fine with the top three. Maybe because I'm used to that scar cuz of the movies? Idk lol
2 because that’s what is in the books and that is all that matters to me.
I think making it like, actually a scar and not like the movies would be nice. I imagined it shaped more like 4 but more centered. Still kinda do, honestly. The movie one I get they wanted bc it was easier than a more complex scar, but it barely looked like lightning and the color always seemed wrong to me.
The movie scar has the look of a healing scab (i know that's gross), it's more red and bloody like he had only just got it the other day and it was starting to heal. It never looked like a real faded scar
Yeah, the one in the movie at times looks more like a recent cut than a scar!!
4
1 or 2
something between 1 and 5.
I always pictured it as 5
6 is really cool
5
1.
I've always imagined something like this. It should be big and visible. I also really like number 6. I think they could also do 2 to correspond with Hogwarts Legacy, but I think it should be bigger.
1-4 are good for me
2
Right in the fucking middle where it belongs, worn like the battle scar it is
i want 5, 1 to 4 look too basic and 6 looks a lil over the top
NGL it’d be a little cool if it ran down to his high cheek
5 but the pattern a little different
2
2, 5 or 6
I like 5 and 6 the most, more realistically lightening-like
just like kratos =))
2 or 6. It has to be immediately noticeable to serve its story function.
2 is how I envision it in the books. I do like the idea of it looking how lightning actually looks, so I wouldn’t be mad at 6; just make it a bit more faded so it isn’t so obvious an eyesore.
I'm pretty sure it has to look like the shape we're used to, the elongated pointy 'S' type lightning bolt, I think it's the wand movement of Avada Kedavra
6 but I think 2 is more book
the movie makes it look like an N.
a lightning bolt needs at least 3 zigzags
5
A longer version of 2, or maybe something like 6.
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2
I think 5 and 6 are way cooler! And more I’d picture a lightning shaped scar
I dunno I just want Voldemort to say “Squiggle, Squiggle, Squiggle” when he curses aharry
1
6 actually looks the coolest and most accurate like a dark spell rebounded onto him….
I always imagine is like 1, but the bottom part is longer and cuts through his eyebrow
Over his right eye number 1 so he can he evil and in slytherin.
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