Priori Incantatem Order/Polyjuice Potion

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No: HPFGUIDX 2135

My own belief is that Voldemort does not in fact have his original 
wand; in any event I haven't found anything plausible to explain how 
he could have retained it or retrieved it following his disastrous 
visit to Godric's Hollow; nor have I seen anything to cause me to 
believe he could have carried it around during the eleven years that 
he had no body.

If Voldemort is, in fact, using a ringer wand, the implication is
that Harry is already a lot more powerful than anyone has yet 
suspected (being able to actuate the Priori Incantatem effect without 
even having the actual wand that shares his own wand's core).  In
fact we already KNOW that Harry is exceptionally powerful; he won a 
wizard's duel against Voldemort, fair and square.  This level of 
potential, when demonstrated unwittingly by a half-trained
adolescent, would seem to give Voldemort a strong incentive for 
wanting to kill Harry as an infant.  There may be something in his 
genes that Voldemort was able to anticipate as a future threat.

I wonder what Lily and Petunia's maiden name was?

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "storm stanford" <msmacgoo at h...> 
wrote:
> Brian said:
>    Your right that it doesn't make much sense for James and Lilly
to 
> swith places.  But in post 1530 (I think) I proposed a scanario 
where 
> James and Harry switched.  I admit it has holes and I'm not exactly 
a 
> big proponent of it but I do think it explains things as well as 
> anything that's been thought up so far.  Although the idea that 
Snape 
> killed James with Voldy's wand after the attempt to kill Harry
makes 
> a certain amount of sense too.
>                                        
> 
> I don't think that Harry and James could have swapped placed - this 
would have left a small 14 month old baby in a body that the could
not 
control. Remember the polyjuice potion just gives you the phsycal
(sp) 
charictoristics (sp) of the person/cat you transform into - not
access 
to there skills/memories etc
> 
> storm
> 
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Brian 
>   To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com 
>   Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 11:34 PM
>   Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Priori Incantatem Order/Polyjuice 
Potion
> 
> 
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>   --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Christina Gross 
<Changeling at d...> 
>   wrote:
>   > 
>   > Hallo all,
>   > 
>   > I joined the list a short while ago and I very much enjoy 
reading
>   > your insights. 
>   > 
>   > As for the Polyjuice Potion theory, there's another point that
>   > doesn't fit the picture. Even if there was a strong enough 
reason to
>   > keep the heirs of Gryffindor alive (assuming that James and 
Harry 
>   are
>   > his descendants) to make James trade places and appearance with 
his
>   > wife and put her up as Voldemorts prime target, did he really 
have
>   > reason to think Voldemort would let Lily live, given his hatred 
of
>   > muggle-born wizards?
>   > 
>   > Greetings
>   > Christina
> 
> 
>   Christina,
>      Your right that it doesn't make much sense for James and Lilly 
to 
>   swith places.  But in post 1530 (I think) I proposed a scanario 
where 
>   James and Harry switched.  I admit it has holes and I'm not 
exactly a 
>   big proponent of it but I do think it explains things as well as 
>   anything that's been thought up so far.  Although the idea that 
Snape 
>   killed James with Voldy's wand after the attempt to kill Harry 
makes 
>   a certain amount of sense too.
>                                           Brian
> 
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