[HPforGrownups] Re: Another puzzle about Voldemort's wand

[Meg Demeranville]

No: HPFGUIDX 55002

"Daughter of the Dust" wrote: <snip>He didn't hold the chain long enough for
to have been regurgiated, I don't think...
Or perhaps, since it already backfired, it was like it hadn't been performed
(I know I'm reaching). <snip>
 
I write:
But the curse that gave Harry the scar occurred after James and Lily were
killed. The curse should have appeared between Bertha Jorkins' appearance
and Lily's. The passage is as follows:
The shadow of Bertha Jorkins surveyed the battle before her with wide eyes.

"Don't let go, now!" she cried, and her voice echoed like Cedric's as though
from very far away. "Don't let him get you, Harry - don't let go!"

She and the other two shadowy figures began to pace around the inner walls
of the golden web, while the Death Eaters flitted around the outside of
it... and Voldemort's dead victims whispered as they circled the duelers,
whispered words of encouragement to Harry, and hissed words Harry couldn't
hear to Voldemort.

And now another head was emerging from the tip of Voldemort's wand . . . and
Harry knew when he saw it who it would be ... he knew, as though he had
expected it from the moment when Cedric had appeared from the wand . . .
knew, because the woman appearing was the one he'd thought of more than any
other tonight. . . . (UK paper 578-9)

So Harry's curse does not appear in the regurgitation of spells.

 

Just my two cents.

 

--Meg (still trying for that L.O.O.N. membership)



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