Why couldn't Voldemort kill Harry?

[Alexander]

No: HPFGUIDX 33707

  Greetings!

> Red XIV wrote to us:

b> But regardless, I maintain that Lily's protection couldn't possibly
b> have been the only reason Harry survived Voldemort's attack. It's 
b> made clear that Voldemort kill a great many people before that. He's 
b> mentioned as having wiped out other families. Surely there would've 
b> been other people who died trying to protect someone they loved from 
b> Voldemort. Yet Voldemort succeeded in killing every person he 
b> targetted, until he went after Harry. Thus, I conclude that there 
b> must've been something special about Harry even before Lily 
b> sacrificed herself to protect him. This conclusion would be supported 
b> by the fact that Voldemort considered killing the one-year-old Harry 
b> worth his time to begin with.

b> Red XIV

  I have my own theory on why did Voldemort's attack fail,
though I estimate it's probability no greater than 20-30
percents.

  It's based entirely on the sequence of spells of Voldie
wand. There was no Avada Kedavra spell that hit Harry -
everyone knows that, and it's in HP Lexicon, so I think the
problem needs no introduction.

  My theory is that Voldemort tried to kill Harry with the
wand of Lily Potter.

  The first and immediate result of the theory is that
there's no trouble with spell sequence. Also there's an
additional bonus to Harry defence against Voldemort - is it
more difficult to kill Harry with Lily's wand? I haven't the
slightest idea, but that's quite possible if we remember
wands are demi-sentient (CS).

  There's a question, of course: why did Voldemort use
Lily's wand? Was he deprived of his own? By whom? Or did he
do it voluntarily? But at least these questions are simpler
than the initial question of spell sequence.

  This is not intended to be the final explanation of spell
sequence problem, of course, just one more theory to be
considered.

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
(Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed),
always happy to throw weird ideas into the community.