[HPforGrownups] Lucius' Influence/Muggle Magic/Barty Jr!Moody Teaching Ha...

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In a message dated 12/22/02 7:46:45 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
corsa808 at yahoo.com writes:


> I am having a hard time thinking that Voldemort, with all of his power, 
> couldn't know about Priori Incantatem.

       On that, I'm sure LV did know about Priori Incantatem, but...he had no 
reason to expect to experience it. He had, at that point, no way of knowing 
that his wand and Harry's shared a core. *That's* what triggered the effect. 
So, there's our would-be 'Evil Overlord' showing off to his underlings, and 
suddenly shaken by the last possible, rarest reaction he could have expected. 
That, plus his current just resurrected state, and his shock at seeing his 
victims, helped Harry there. I suspect that the fact that the feathers are 
Fawkes' probably helped, too. Fawkes seems to like Harry, or at least to know 
that DD wants him supported whenever possible.

       Is it possible that Fawkes has a link to LV's wand? Every time he has 
aided Harry, both in the Chamber and in the graveyard, LV was there and 
*handling* a wand with his tail feather. [Harry's in CoS and his own in GoF.] 
Such a link might explain DD's ability to counter LV.

       BTW, I wonder if there wasn't a reason, aside from JKR's confirming 
that those folks were really DEs that led LV to call certain DEs by name? 
After all Karkaroff states that most of the DEs didn't know who the others 
were. Was LV not-so-subtly exposing those, like Lucius, who got away with 
claiming they'd been Imperioed? After all, if they had been unwilling slaves, 
why would they have come this time?

       Cheryl


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