Hagrid.. or Rubeus the DE..

In Book One.. page55-56, paperback, US version. Hagrid is telling Harry about how he got his scar.

".............Never wondered how you got that mark on your forehead? That was no ordinary cut. That's what yeh get when a powerful, evil curse touches yeh --- took care of yer mum an' dad an' your house, even --- but it didn't work on you, an' that's why yer famous, Harry. No one ever lived after he decided to kill 'em, no ne except you, an' he'd killed some o' the best witches an' wizards of the age --- the McKinnons, the Bones, the Prewetts --- an' you was only an ababy, an' you lived."

Something very pinful was going on in Harry's mind. As Hagrid's story came to a close, he saw again the blinding flash of green light, more clearly than he had ever remmebred it before --- and he remembered something else, for the first time in his life: a high, cruel laugh.

Hagrid was watching him sadly.
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ok.. we have been directed by the author to view Hagrid in a sympathetic light. But we all thought Sev was the villain too, until at the very end when it was Quirrell.

Maybe the powerful wand in the umbrella was Tom's!!! He could have found it during "the lost day" when he went to get Harry from the house. It makes perfect sense. If he was there to get Harry, and no one else had found the wand... etc. Eventually, yes, Peter gets it, but that could just be a matter of stealing it back.

I find it highly important that it says something PAINFUL was going on in Harry's mind. We are led to think psychologically painful, remembering the attack.

But it is the first time Harry hears the cold cruel laugh. And after this, Harry's scar hurts when Tom is near, or feeling anything.

*gasp* So... perhaps Tom is quite near. This is the beginning of the whole problem Harry has with the link with Tom. I still say that it doesn't bother him in bk six because the horcrux in his head went back to Tom.

Hagrid just opened his mind to Tom..