KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -As Digital Spy shared, Rowling explained why she chose a lightning bolt scar shape for Harry during a fan chat in 2007. At the time, she wrote, she just thought it was cool. “I couldn’t have my hero sport a doughnut-shaped scar.” (Sidenote: Homer Simpson should totally have a doughnut-shaped scar.

Detailed explanation-2: -It’s not just a random lightning bolt (which almost seems too basic for Rowling, in a sense). It’s the sign for the very spell that Voldemort used to kill Harry’s parents, resulting in the scar on his forehead.

Detailed explanation-3: -A scar on Harry Potter’s forehead in the shape of a lightning bolt was the result of a failed murder attempt by Lord Voldemort on 31 October 1981, when he struck 15-month-old Harry with the Killing Curse.

Detailed explanation-4: -Harry Potter’s scar is not a lightning bolt, but the hand motion to cast Avada Kedavra : r/harrypotter.

Detailed explanation-5: -Harry’s scan appears to be in the shape of a lightening bolt, because that is the motion in which the Avada Kedavra curse is cast.