Who gave Harry the scar on his forehead?

A scar on Harry Potter's forehead in the shape of a lightning bolt is the result of a failed murder attempt by Lord Voldemort on October 31, 1981, when he struck 15-month-old Harry with the Killing Curse.
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How did Harry get the scar on his forehead?

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.
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Why did Voldemort give Harry scar?

Harry's scar is a curse scar which was given to him when the dark lord Voldemort tried to kill him on Halloween night after hearing a prophecy that he believed meant Harry had the power to stop him. Voldemort asked Harry's mum to stand aside so he could kill Harry- she asked him to take her life instead.
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What wand gave Harry his scar?

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.
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What's the secret of Harry's scar?

Harry got the scar when he was just a baby after Voldemort tried to kill him with a curse, but as his mum Lily tried to save him, it hit the dark lord instead - leaving the young wizard with a mark on his forehead.
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Why can Voldemort touch Harry?

In the graveyard in the Goblet of Fire, Voldemort was able to freely touch Harry without harm once he possessed Harry's blood (which contained Lily's sacrificial protection).
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Did Harry's scar switch sides?

Harry's scar

In the "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", in the scene where prof. Lupin teaches them to get rid of boggart , Harry's scar is on the left side of his forehead! In the next scene of the same movie the scar moved to the left, where it used to be before and will be later.
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Why did the Phoenix wand choose Harry?

The Holly wand chose Harry because he was born on July 31. The Holly wand wouldn't have chosen the Horcrux within Harry, because Voldemort was born December 31. Yew is Voldemort's assigned wand wood.
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Why does Harry's scar hurt when Umbridge touched him?

It was just a coincidence.

Voldemort is planning the escape of his key lieutenants from Azkhaban and is alternately happy and frustrated. Those strong emotions make Harry's scar tingle. He also feels a similar pain when getting changed after Quidditch in Chapter 18.
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Why did Harry's scar hurt when Snape looked at him?

Harry's scar had hurt during Arrival Feast because of Quirrell's connection to Voldemort; Snape was then talking to Quirrell, allowing Voldemort, from the back of Quirrell's head, to sense Harry's presence.
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Was Harry's scar a Horcrux?

As fans of the books and films know, Harry's scar is actually Voldemort's final Horcrux. As revealed in The Deathly Hallows, the Dark Lord divided his soul into fragments, and hid them in several objects, or Horcruxes, as a way to achieve immortality.
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What spell is Avada Kedavra?

Avada Kedavra, also known as the Killing Curse, kills a person instantaneously and without injury. There is no countercurse for it, and only one person, Harry Potter, has ever survived it.
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Did Harry Potter lose his parseltongue?

After Lord Voldemort destroyed the fragment of his soul residing in Harry, Harry seemingly lost the ability to speak Parseltongue, about which he was glad and relieved. Over the next twenty-two years, he never attempted to speak the language, presuming that it had died with Voldemort.
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Did Harry's scar go away?

Unfortunately, there are limits to dittany's healing properties, and the scars from both almost certainly never fully disappeared. More recently, Pottermore reported that the adult Harry was seen with a cut over his right cheekbone, which is certain to leave a scar.
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What could have caused the squares on Harry's face?

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In Hari's face there is a scar. This scar could have been caused by the fear of being caught by April. In other words, Hari would have done it by himself unintentionally as he was very scared and nervous because of April.
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Is Harry's scar a lightning bolt?

It turns out Harry's iconic lightning bolt scar on his forehead isn't actually a lightning bolt. While it does closely resemble lightning, it's really something much more sinister. Today Years Old shared side-by-side photos of Harry's scar and the hand motion for casting the Avada Kedavra spell.
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Was Hogwarts all in Harry's head?

Hogwarts is all in Harry's head.

Oh, and the Dursleys? They're actually Harry's real family and he made up Lily and James Potter in his head.
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How did Harry survive the killing curse?

Voldemort intentionally made six Horcruxes, but when he used Avada Kedavra on Harry, he unintentionally created a seventh Horcrux. Instead of dying, Lily's love for Harry created a counter 'curse' known as Sacrificial Protection and saved Harry.
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How is Umbridge connected to Voldemort?

With the fall of Lord Voldemort, Dolores Umbridge was put on trial for her enthusiastic co-operation with his regime, and convicted of the torture, imprisonment and deaths of several people (some of the innocent Muggle-borns she sentenced to Azkaban did not survive their ordeal).
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Who has the doe Patronus?

Case study 2: Severus Snape

A doe. And in his final battle with Lord Voldemort, Harry explained the significance of this to his adversary, and to us: 'Snape's Patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's, because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from the time when they were children'.
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What is the most powerful wand in Harry Potter?

The Elder Wand, the most powerful wand ever created, is one of three objects that make up the Deathly Hallows, including the Cloak of Invisibility and the Resurrection Stone. The Elder Wand was 15 inches long, formed by Death himself, made of elder wood, and contained the center of the tail-hair of Thestral.
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Who had the same wand as Harry?

Tom Riddle's wand was 13½" long, crafted from yew, and affixed with a phoenix feather core. The core of wand was taken from Fawkes, Albus Dumbledore's phoenix, whose tail feathers had also been used in the construction of Harry Potter's wand, making the two wands siblings.
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Is Harry still a Parselmouth?

Harry can no longer speak it

Once the part of Voldemort's soul that dwelled inside Harry was destroyed, however, Harry discovered he was no longer a Parselmouth; an added bonus of Voldemort's demise.
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How long has it been since Harry's scar lasted?

But in adult Harry Potter, its silence also signals an end to Harry's trials and troubles in the wizarding world: 'The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years.
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