even more wand order stuff (or the topic that will not go away!)

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 6502

Steve wrote: "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?

In-between Bertha emerging and James, or Lily in the corrected version,
emerging Harry takes note of what the other 'echoes' are doing. There is
enough time, IMO, during this for some 'effect' to come out of the wand and
disappear in the same way that Peter's hand does. What 'effect' would this
spell have? It would not be a ghost type of thing (like what Cedric, et al.
appear as) since Voldemort did not die.

My feeling is that Voldemort did kill Lily and James; he went to their house
alone, or maybe with Peter (explaining how he ended up with the wand - which
he kept until meeting up with, and giving some form of body back to,
Voldemort). I just do not see any logical explanation for him lying about
this.


Which brings me onto another point.

We know that Voldemort / Riddle lies - the bit about Hagrid and the werewolf
cubs that Jo confirmed was made up in one of the interviews / chats
recently.
So how do we know that Harry is safe with the Dursleys'? No one other than
Voldemort says this. We do get the impression that this is the explanation
as to why Dumbledore sends him back to them each summer and why he cannot
stay with the Weasleys' after GoF, but he does not confirm this. There maybe
are other reasons.
Why Voldemort would lie about this, just before he attempts to kill Harry, I
do not know. It is possible that he does lie to make it clear as to why he
takes this opportunity to act and does not wait for the summer, or even why
he did not do it the previous summer - before the World Cup.
He could also be trying to lull Harry into a false sense of security about
the protection Dumbledore has been offering him. Again, why would he do this
I do not know? But I am not an evil homicidal maniac - so do not know what
he would be thinking.


Simon