Priori Incantatem and Snape's Anger

[Brian]

No: HPFGUIDX 1767

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Kelley " <SKTHOMPSON_1 at m...> wrote:
>  
> > If you say that James was killed by the house falling in, then he 
> > wouldn't have come out of the wand at all because his death 
> wouldn't 
> > be the direct cause of a Voldy curse....
> 

Hello everyone,
   I have one question regarding the idea that the house collapsing 
may have caused James' death.  There are two mentions of wizards 
being resistant to death by conventional means (I'm not saying they 
are immortal, just "resistant).  The first was Hagrid's astonishment 
at the Dursley's contention that Lilly and James could have been 
killed by a car crash (as violent as a house falling I'd say).   The 
second was Neville being dropped from a second story window and 
simply bouncing down the street.  Possibly a strong curse went off 
and it both destroyed the house and killed James.

   Speaking of a curse, I have another idea that occurred to me the 
other day regarding Snape's hatred toward Harry.  It sounds like the 
common belief is that Snape was in love with Lilly and hates Harry as 
a by-product of hating James out of jealousy.  What if his hatred is 
instead strictly for Harry because of something he did.  I contend 
that Snape was working for Dumbledore and the Ministry to bring down 
Voldy (something we as much already know).  Suppose the night Voldy 
went to kill the Potters, Snape was there.  Perhaps he was Voldy's 
Lietenant or something (he could even have asked to come along 
because of his well-known animosity toward James).  Anyway, he wanted 
to kill or at catch Voldy and may have even cast the curse I 
mentioned above.  Now he was the one who tracked down Voldy, he was 
the one who was going to save Lilly's son, he was going to be the 
hero to every wizard and witch and all of the credit for Voldy's 
downfall ends up going to Harry.  Once again he has been bested by a 
Potter and this time he's an infant.   Note: this would also explain 
Dumbledore's unwavering trust in Snape.
   Anyway, I get these weird ideas every now and then like 
the "Crabbe and Goyle" theory and the "James took Polyjuice" solution 
so I would appreciate any thoughts.
                                            Brian