Hate to open an old wound, but...[night of J&L Potters' death]

[mellienel2 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26227


> Yes it is. It's cast. 

I think cast was the wrong word. Cast does mean left the wand...I 
meant...was successful, was a real spell. I do mean that it's 
possible it doesn't appear because it didn't work as intended.

> that the scar was the direct result of an Avada Kedavra spell, 
> however. 

No, we def. don't -- I do contend that it was a spell, however, 
because JKR picked a lightning bolt because of the power it suggets. 
That seems to suggest it was a spell.

> bolt of energy. When you add to that the fact that the house was 
> destroyed, an effect which doesn't seem to be in keeping with the 
> action of the Killing Curse, it is likely that there was more going 
> on there than we know about yet.

My bets are on Pettigrew. We know he's good at blowing up things. So 
say he goes with Voldy (remember, he wasn't at his hiding spot -- why 
tip Sirius off that something's wrong by not being at your hiding 
spot unless you're onto bigger things?), things went wrong, he didn't 
*dare* try AK, so he blew up the house instead, in a last ditch 
effort to kill Harry, then fled.


> Funny, though, now that I'm thinking about scars...I wonder if 
> there's anything to Dumbledore's statement about scars being useful 
> and that he has one on his knee that is a map of the London 
> Underground. Strange statement, that...

I love that statement. Almost as much as I love Dumbledore. 

later,
m.