Priori Incantatem

[Trina]

No: HPFGUIDX 1411

All this talk about the echoes of the priori incantatem triggered a 
question that I don't believe has ever been mentioned.  If the echoes 
of last spells cast by Voldy's wand came out, shouldn't there have  
*some* sort of echo of the aveda kedavra he tried to use on Harry? It 
would have been after Bertha Jorkin's echo and just before James' 
echo.  Or is it only successful spells that remain in the wand?  
Since it failed abysmally, would it not count towards the priori?  

My own personal belief in the seemingly reverse order of James and 
Lily in the priori can be expained by Harry himself. "And now another 
head was emerging from the tip of Voldemort's wand...and Harry knew 
when he saw it who it would be...(snip) because the man appearing was 
the one *he'd thought of more than any other tonight*...

We all know how Harry's innate magic makes things happen unexpectedly 
during times of great emotional stress.  Well, of all the stressful 
events in Harry's life, going face to face with Voldy after 
witnessing him cold-bloodedly kill Cedric has to be the most 
stressful.  My belief is that Harry needed to see his Dad first and 
unknowingly caused him to emerge before Lily. 

Just my 2 knuts

Trina