A friend just loaned me her copies of Jeeves and Wooster, and my sister and I watched this one last week. We couldn't stop laughing! But - note the symbol in the background? WHY is Harry wandering around with the symbol of the English fascists on his forehead? It really doesn't make sense to me.
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So you have! And, though we don't agree about everything, now that I've seen this clip, I totally agree with you about this. It is just deeply weird that little kids have come to think this symbol is cool. But they have. I know - I've heard them. Heck, I've even handed out stickers at library parties! And the children were happy to get them. Had I known what that mark was a symbol of, I certainly wouldn't have wanted to give it to innocent little children as a prize at a party.
As to the reasoning behind it, as with Harry's awful behavior in the last two books, I'm sure Rowling expects readers to see it as a symbol of Voldemort, not as something intrinsic to Harry. But that reasoning doesn't work for me. It might, of course, for some readers.
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Please read my point about "identical," above, if by "identical" you mean anything more than "it's a lightning bolt."
Other than that, I don't plan to debate this.
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Also, I don't really see why the scar had to have a significant shape. It was significant in itself, and could just have been a straight line, or an arc. You can't get more open than that if an open shape was needed, and it looks much more random and accidental than a lightning bolt. But Rowling chose a lightning bolt.
Whatever she intended; whatever her reasoning, the net effect is that lots of little kids think that the symbol of the British fascists is cool. They don't think Voldemort when they see that shape. They think Harry, the boy who lived.
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Not that there's anything wrong with a writer having influences, of course! But you should examine and acknowledge them.
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