Now that we're living in a world without new books and films about the life of Harry Potter to look forward to every year, all we have to keep us going is the circulation of a new Harry Potter fact on social media to keep us going.
Now a fan has posited a theory that Harry's famous scar isn't actually a lightning bolt after all...
Yep, as pointed out by a fan on Twitter, Harry's lightening bolt-shaped scar may be 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.
Of course, this is one of those pieces of trivia that has been doing the rounds online for years – here's a Reddit thread from 2015, for example – but for those fans who are only just hearing this one, it's certainly proving game-changing:
As for the official word from JK Rowling on Potter's uniquely-shaped scar, back in 2007 she revealed in a fan chat that she chose the lightning bolt shape because it was "cool".
"I couldn't have my hero sport a doughnut-shaped scar," she added.
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