Asleep in the back of the vehicle, Hargitay, then three and a half years old, was left with a zigzag scar on one side of her head.

Have you ever moved frightened into a doorway and watched a soldierly man with a zigzag lightning-bolt scar on one side of his face storm into a drunken mob and discover, lying spread-eagled in death on the ground, a boy, his head smashed and his pockets turned out?

She is rubbing the zigzag scar on her arm.

The fledgling wizard with the zigzag scar rode his Quidditch broom to the biggest movie opening of all time this weekend as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" earned an estimated $93.5 million in its first three days, making it all but assured of breaking the $100 million mark Monday afternoon.

Childhood ends for Harry Potter, the young wizard with the zigzag scar and phantasmagorical world of troubles, not long after the dragons have roared and the merpeople have screeched their empty threats through broken teeth.

But vigilant fans noticed in the preview trailer that the zigzag scar is slightly to one side.

(Scott) * 'HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE' (PG-13, 150 minutes) Childhood ends for the young wizard with the zigzag scar in the latest addition to the Potter saga, even as the director Mike Newell keeps its British eccentricity, fatalism and steady-on pluck irresistibly intact.

Then in walked the man of Pinch's sketch: there was the missing joint of the left index finger and the zigzag scar on the forehead, all but hidden under the black knit cap.