[HPforGrownups] Shadows from Voldemort's wand

[Katze]

No: HPFGUIDX 32013

hpfan04 wrote:
> 
>   It's me again. If it's been discussed before, I'm horribly
> sorry...but I was also confused on the shadows that came from
> Voldemort's wand in GoF. I mean, does anyone have a theory as to why
> the shadows know who Harry is and why they can talk and all that? Did
> Voldie's wand capture the soul (or ghost) of the person when he killed
> them? Otherwise, how did they talk to him and know who he was or know
> how to keep Voldemort at bay when Harry was supposed to run. And how
> did Cedric Diggory kno to tell Harry to take his body back to his
> parents (if that, right there, made sense)?
>   Feedback?
>   ~Kyli (who now thinks she gets confused a lot - especially when she
> rambles...)

I think GoF explains this...

page 697, Hardback, US version:

"No spell can reawaken the dead," said Dumbledore heavily. "All that
would have happened is a kind of reverse echo. A shadow of the living
Cedric would have emerged from the wand...am I correct, Harry?"

"He spoke to me," Harry said.
...

"An echo," said Dumbledore, "which retained Cedric's appearance and
character. I am guessing other such forms appeared..."

So...I my understand it's like an echo of the person. It would explain
why Cedric, Lily, and James would know Harry, because they knew him in
real life. So when the person dies, their echo contains am memory of
Harry. 

-Katze