Stitch in time
Barbed wire scars, Babcock
This old oak shares something fundamental with Harry Potter. The "boy who lived" after miraculously surviving a Killing Curse cast by Lord Voldemort, er, He Who Must Not Be Named, would forever bear a lightning-shaped scar across his face—Harry's history made flesh. The scars in the bark of this oak are also a clue to its history. But they are not the result of an encounter with You Know Who. Rather, they're a sure sign that the tree once served as a post that held two strands of barbed wire. Over time, the oak overgrew its wire burden, which, eventually, rusted to nothing more than a narrow slit in tree bark. Clearly, the tree lived on. The barbed curse had only cosmetic effects.
Keywords:
Harry Potter,
He Who Must Not Be Named,
Killing Curse,
Lord Voldemort,
You Know Who,
barbed wire,
oak scars
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