even more wand order stuff

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 6498

Okay, please don't stone me for talking about that darn wand order 
thing again. I've read a few posts here lately that seem to suggest 
that everything's all settled as far as the wand order thing goes. 
But that's not the case as far as I can tell. Have I missed something?

Here's the way it looks from where I'm standing. The order that James 
and Lily come out of the wand tells us the order in which they died, 
no question about that. But any way you look at it, the spells that 
killed them came out of the wand AFTER the one that sent Voldemort 
packing, since that spell was not one of the nine that did come out. 
Once we establish that, who cares which order they came out? It 
wasn't Voldemort casting the Killing Curse since he was bodyless and 
therefore unable to hold a wand at that point. So no matter if they 
change the order in this edition or that, it doesn't solve the real 
problem, am I right?

And the real question is "Who really killed the Potters using 
Voldemort's wand?" Do we have even the slightest clue about who that 
might be? It's clear that Voldemort THOUGHT he did it, but he clearly 
didn't. Either he killed two other people who looked like the Potters 
or he seriously wounded Lily and James but didn't kill them. Someone 
else must have finished them off later. On a page in the Lexicon I 
suggest that it might have been Crouch or Pettigrew, but that's based 
on nothing concrete at all, just flat out guessing on my part. But 
the order in which this other person happened to actually kill the 
Potters in is immaterial, right?

Or has this all been hashed through and settled and am I just 
revealing that I've been skimming messages and not reading them all 
in detail?

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon
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