Priori Incantatem

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 1413

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Trina " <lj2d30 at g... wrote:
 "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   "
That's a reasonable theory. Harry would want to see his father at a 
time like that.

Voldemort said explicitly in PS/SS that he killed James first. 
Voldemort didn't have much motivation to lie at the time so he 
probably was telling the truth as he believed it.  If James wasn't 
killed first, how could it have happened? Voldemort may not have used 
Avada Kedavra on James for some reason, (died when the house blew up) 
or maybe James was actually the first person to survive it, at least 
for a while. There's holes in that idea: if James survived it, even 
for a moment, the spell should have backfired at least a little and 
Voldemort would have known it.  OTOH, I can't come up with a 
reasonable objection to your theory.