Priori Incantantem/Deletrius

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No: HPFGUIDX 25823

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:
> Just a note: the spell cast on the wand in the woods to reveal the 
> spells it had cast was NOT exactly the same thing as the Priori 
> Incantatem effect. The first one is Prior Incantato, a spell which 
is 
> cast. When wands which are "brothers" fight each other, the result 
is 
> not a spell cast but an "effect," called Priori Incantatem. This 
> effect would NOT be reversable by a simple spell, since it's not a 
> spell itself.
> 
> Steve Vander Ark
> The Harry Potter Lexicon
> http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon


Maybe, but isn't "Priori Incantatem" merely the Latin plural 
of "Prior Incantato?" The first time, in the woods after the QWC, 
Amos Diggory is checking what the *last* spell cast by the wand was. 
At the end of GoF, it is a plural number of spells that are 
revealed/undone. I think the two are very similar, actually.