Priori Incantatem, and Harry's brand of Magic

[Vicki Merriman]

No: HPFGUIDX 1620

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Scott " <harry_potter00 at y...> 
wrote:

> I also argree with Penny in that Harry himself made his father come 
> first.  After all it was only by Harry's will that ANYTHING came 
out 
> of Voldemort's wand, if V. had had the stronger will Harry's wand 
> would have been the wand spitting up spells, right?
 

Yes, but I don't agree that Harry caused the "reversal."  Harry 
didn't actually cause the wand to regurgitate spells.  That was an 
effect of his holding his own in the fight, caused by his magical 
strength, perhaps, but not caused BY him.  i.e.  because the wands 
were brothers, it was tough to make them fight each other and that is 
what caused the regurgitation.  Dumbledore specifically stated that 
the reversal was a rare BUT KNOWN effect caused by the relationship 
of the wands.  It wasn't caused by harry's will at all.

I think James died after Lily, and that that may be important in a 
later book.  NOw why everyone, including apparently Voldemort, thinks 
James died first is a question I don't know the answer to, but it 
seems more likely to me that Voldemort is either lying or simply 
wrong, and that James died last.

Vicki