Priori Incantatem and ghost food

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No: HPFGUIDX 1447

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Brooks R" <brooksar at i...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Bates" <spicoli323 at h...> 
> wrote:
> 
> >  In the 
> interest 
> > of gender equality, I guess I should at least consider the 
> > possibility that Lily held Voldy off while James went off with
the 
> > baby, but James is the better wizard, making him more qualified
to 
> go 
> > mano a mano with Voldy
> 
> How do we know James is the better wizard?  In Book I, Ollivander 
> seems to imply that they might just have different specialties, 
> although IIRC he does also imply that James was pretty powerful.  
> 
> IIRC James' specialty would be transfigurations, as Ollivander
says,  
> - especially since he was able to do the animagus transfiguration
on 
> himself; and note that two wizards we also respect are probably
> pretty 
> good at transfigurations - McGonagall who is animagus and teaches
the 
> subject - and Dumbledore who formerly taught the subject.  And back
> to 
> specialties, Ollivander indcates that Lily specialized in charms,
as 
> that's the kind of wand she got.  But who is to say that someone 
> strong in charms is not equally as good a wizard as someone in 
> transfigurarations?   The charms  (and their reverse, hexes) seem
to 
> be used an awful lot - everyday magic, but rather important - and
> more 
> than transfigurations, although those are often rather 'showy'.
> 
> Brooks
> 
In PoA, when Harry hears his father, James is telling Lily to take 
Harry and run, right? In which case it would be James who went forth 
to go mano-a-mano with Voldemort. Not that that makes him necessarily 
the better wizard. And I've always heard that the fact that Llily's 
wand was 'a good one for charms' will wind up being integral to the 
plot later on.