Old Dark Magic

[jonathandupont at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 23277

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> dfrankiswork at n... wrote:
> 
> > In GOF Voldemort says that his rebirthing is a piece of old Dark
> > Magic.  But Voldemort is the only known case of a person 
disembodied
> > by a failed Avada Kedavra spell.
> 
> Slightly off-topic--nobody in recent times has cared to speculate on
> why, precisely, the spell didn't just *fail.* Sail on off past 
Harry and
> into the night (or the wall, whatever). What caused it to 
*rebound,* why
> should it? None of the other spells we've seen that didn't come off,
> rebounded....

I think it's probably due to the strange relationship between the two 
of them - which I think existed before spell (both look similar as 
well some other stuff). It's all probably related as well to why YKW 
wanted to kill him. Quite how any of this ties in with itself or the 
Harry-knowing-the-name-of-Tom-Riddle thing we were talking about 
before are beyond me. I've got a feeling we probably won't find out 
until Book 7.