[HPforGrownups] Re: Priori Incantatem Order

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 1705



Kelley wrote:

Wouldn't it have a stronger effect if Lily came out

> first, said his father was coming, then James came out and told Harry
> what to do?  James being last would seem more emotionally powerful
> and poignant, plus it would seem more in keeping with James being so
> much on Harry's mind that night.  Any thoughts?

The poignant thing for me about the scene as it was written was the Lily,
the last to appear, was the one who told Harry what he had to do to escape,
and so that it was, in a sense, Lily who saved him again in this chapter,
just as she gave her life to save him when she died.

BTW, can't remember if I've mentioned it before here or only on some of the
other boards I've been on.  Has anyone the very strong resemblance between
the wand scene here and the scene in Shakespeare's Richard III, where all of
Richard's murdered victims appear to him, telling him to "despair and die,"
and then offer encouragement to Richard's rival, Richmond, telling him to be
strong, that he will win the battle.  I thought of that scene immediately
when I read the Priori Incantatem chapter.

Peg

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