Harry and the Avada Kedavra curse

[frances_potteruk]

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I'm sorry if this has already been discussed, but I have been wondering 
just what curse Voldemort was planning to use on Harry after he killed 
Lily and James. It seems to me that it has always been assumed it was 
the Avada Kedavra curse and that Voldemort was trying to kill Harry, 
but does anyone actually know that this is the case?

The only person who knows for sure what happened after Voldemort killed 
Lily and James is himself and Harry. Could it not be that Voldemort was 
actually planning to use some other curse on the baby, one that would 
allow him to use Harry in some way? That he didn't actually planning to 
kill Harry at all?

We do know that a curse was used, as Hagrid says: "That was no ordinary 
cut. That's what yeh get when a powerful evil curse touches you." (PS/
SS chap 4). He goes on to say it was the same curse that took care of 
Harry's mum and dad and house, but I can remember nothing but hearsay 
regarding what happened at Godric's Hollow that night. 

Yes, Harry has the scar. But does Hagrid mean that this type mark is 
always left when the Avada Kedavra curse is used, and we would have 
found a similar mark on his parents and on Cedric. Or is this type of 
mark seen as the aftermath of ANY powerful evil curse? Hagrid also goes 
on to say that: "No one ever lived after he decided ter kill `em, no 
one except you." So how does he (and other wizards) know that such a 
mark is left if the Avada Kedavra curse does not work? It sounds like 
Harry is the first person to have survived the Avada Kedavra curse, so, 
how would people have known that survivors end up with a curse mark? 
Surely it is more likely that the mark is the sign of an evil curse 
rather than a specific one.

If the curse backfired because of Lily's protection of her son, could 
this have also caused the link between Voldemort and Harry?

Frances
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