[HPforGrownups] Re: Peter vs. Sirius once again

[Meghan]

No: HPFGUIDX 12492

Amanda Lewanski wrote:
> 
> Scott wrote:
> 
> > Fourthly maybe Sirius HAD killed someone last, and so the PI did in
> > fact show AK as the last curse. It just wasn't the AK that they
> > THOUGHT it was. (Maybe though this wouldn't work. Do all PI's of AK
> > produce shades???)
> 
> I'd argued before that not all spells cast with a wand are necessarily
> going to produce tangible "echoes" during priori incantatem. Witness the
> screams that come from Voldemort's wand; we as readers happen to know
> that was because he'd cast Cruciatis (sp?) on someone, but if you had no
> idea, the priori incantatem would not enlighten you. Perhaps the
> wizarding world is well acquainted with the limitations, and thus does
> not use it except in situations where they are simply confirming a
> strong suspicion (i.e., the Dark Mark). With a street full of witnesses
> and the Secret Keeper arrangement known (they thought), perhaps priori
> incantatem was not thought necessary.


And for some reason I thought you had to have an exact twin core to do
it in the first place? O.o  

I don't have GoF with me [>_< In storage.  Since November.  Because we
thought we'd have the new house by now.  And you don't know how tempted
I am to simply suck it up and buy a used copy] but I think I remember
something about Dumbles saying something to the effect that a) Priori
Incantatem was a RARE effect, and ONLY occured when two wands were made
with the same cores.  In Voldemort and Harry's case, the feathers from
Fawkes.

[And we will all pause, and not go there, about how Riddle was suited to
a feather from DUMBLEDORE'S phoenix, and also where the heck he had his
wand while in hiding/without a body. =P]

meg
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