Priori Incantantem/Deletrius

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25811

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., cynthiaanncoe at h... wrote:
> I was reading the Lexicon (again!) and something about the wand 
order 
> mystery occured to me.  The Lexicon raises the issue of whether V 
> must have tried to kill Harry before killing James and Lily based 
on 
> the wand order in GoF, because the spell that rebounded onto V 
didn't 
> come out of V's wand in the graveyard scene.
> 
> I was wondering whether priori incantantem causes the wand to 
> regurgitate all past spells, or only all *successful*  spells.  
> In "The Dark Mark", Amos Diggory uses "Prior Incantato" to 
> discover "the last spell a wand performed."  Dumbledore uses the 
same 
> description in "The Parting of the Ways":  the wand will 
> regurgitate "spells it has performed."  Dumbledore also says that 
V's 
> wand would have regurgitated "the last *murders* the wand 
> performed."  So would a "failed" spell like the one used on Harry 
be 
> considered a spell that was "performed" such that it would be 
> regurgitated?  It certainly didn't result in a murder, as Harry 
> lived.  If not, then the "wand order scene" is entirely consistent 
> with the sequence that V killed James, then Lily, then failed to 
kill 
> Harry.
> 

More evidence that unsuccessful spells aren't regurgitated in Priori 
Incantantem:  In the Graveyard, Voldemort's wand performs the Imperio 
Curse on Harry.  Harry throws of the curse -- making it an 
unsuccessful spell.  The Imperio curse, however, does not come out of 
Voldemort's wand in the Priori Incantantem scene.  

So I (and I seem to be entirely alone in this) still think we need to 
re-think the idea in the Lexicon that the corrected wand order scene 
means that someone killed James and Lilly with Voldemort's wand after 
Voldemort tried to kill Harry.  

Cindy (who is founding Regurgitated Spells of Voldemort Partnership 
(R.S.V.P.), which is seeking members for one knut each)