Priori Incantatem Order

[Steve Bates]

No: HPFGUIDX 1676

Okay, that explains my objection in my previous post.  Still, it is 
tough to believe that Voldy wouldn't take the path of least 
resistance and just *kill* James to get him out of the way.  I don't 
think it's beyond Voldy to cause a little pointless suffering, but if 
his primary goal was Harry, he should have gotten *everyone* that 
stood between him and Harry out of the way as completely as possible; 
i.e. he shouldn't have put James in any position that he could 
possibly recover from and screw Voldy up at an inopportune time.
Then again, if the reason Voldy was after Harry was because he was 
Gryffindor's heir (which I believe was part of the reason), Harry 
wouldn't have been Voldy's only primary target.  If Harry was a 
descendent of Gryffindor, either James (or, less likely but still 
possible, Lily) would have to be a descendent of Gryffindor, too, 
which would mean that Voldy would be after him (or her) as well.
Didn't someone a while ago bring up the possibility that the shade 
that came from Voldy's wand that Harry thought was James wasn't James 
at all but Harry himself?  So that phantom would actually represent 
the failed spell that attempted to kill Harry, while the next one was 
the spell that killed Lily, and James never actually got to appear at 
all.  I don't have a clue at the moment as to why the Harry phantom 
would be in the form of an adult, though.  Still, I think this has as 
much potential as the other two main theories for explaining the 
order the phantoms came out of the wand.
 
--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Kelley " <SKTHOMPSON_1 at m...> wrote:
> I've been thinking some more, here's a slight alternative to my 
last 
> theory:
> 
> Harry is Vold's primary target.  Instead of Vold trying to kill 
> James, he throws the cruciatus curse at him to get him out of the 
> way.  James is unable to throw this one, same as Harry.  Vold 
offers 
> to spare Lily's life if she'll surrender Harry, she refuses, he 
kills 
> her.  When he curses Harry, whatever Harry's special power is 
> rebounds the curse on Vold, and the force of this destroys the 
house, 
> killing James.  Still the same, James gets hit by this third 
curse.  
> Perhaps the fact that they are in Godric's Hollow at the time (and 
> Harry is Gryff's descendant--the Heir of Gryffindor?) is what gives 
> Harry this 'special power' that saves him and rebounds the curse 
onto 
> Vold.-- the Heir of Slyth. and Gryff's enemy.
> 
> How about that?
> 
> Kelley