[HPforGrownups] Re: Why couldn't Voldemort kill Harry?

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 33871

At 11:12 PM +0200 1/18/02, Alexander wrote:
>
>   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.

I've never understood why this is a problem.

In the Priori Incantatem scene in the graveyard at the end of GoF, we 
see the "shades" of several spells:

Cruciatus spells: audible "echoing screams" but no visible effect
Whatever spell it was that produced Wormtail's new hand: shade of the hand
Avada Kedavra: the shade of the person killed

Note that the spine-bending spell that Voldemort used to make Harry 
bow has no visible "shade".  Neither does the failed Imperius curse 
V. tried to use on Harry.

So:

1) Some spells don't have visible "shades," at least for the 
brother-wand Priori effect.

2) If Imperius does have a visible effect, the failure of the spell 
prevents the appearance of the shade in the Priori effect.

We could conclude from that that a failed A.K. spell probably also 
doesn't have a visible effect.

Moreover, the _only_ visible "shade" of the A.K. spell under the 
Priori effect is the shade of the person killed.  Who would that be 
for that particular A.K. spell?  The only two candidates are each 
alive and well and on one end or the other of the Priori effect - 
there's no possible shade to call, since they're both there already! 
So there can't be any visible effect for the A.K. spell that failed 
to kill Harry.

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