Prophecy Contradiction

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 78997

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "elizabeth1603" 
> <elizabeth1603 at y...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > No, Harry and Voldie can't duel. There's also the slilghtly more 
> complicating 
> > fact that Voldemort has made himself immortal, which is why many 
> people 
> > have speculated that Harry will bring down Voldemort with what 
> Dumbledore 
> > reffered to in OOP, the prophecy chapter, as a force more 
terrible 
> than death, 
> > one that Harry posses and Voldie does not. 
> 
> 
> Voldemort isn't immortal anymore, though.  In GOF he tells the 
> DE's: "But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before 
chasing 
> immortality.  I set my sights lower...I would settle for my old 
body 
> back again, and my old strength."  So, that was his plan since he 
> couldn't steal the SS/PS and become immortal.
> 
> I DO wonder about the wand thing, whether they can duel. Dumbledore 
> states in GOF, when asked by Sirius what happens when a wand meets 
> its brother: "They will not work properly against each other...If 
> however, the owners of the wands force the wands to do battle...a 
> very rare effect will take place."  Then he goes on to describe 
> Priori Incantatem.
> 
> That seems ambiguous though. Do wands of the same core 
> work "improperly," which indicates any number of problems might 
> develop, or will it only result in *priori incantatem*?  Also, I'm 
> wondering now whether Voldemort would have been able to kill Harry 
in 
> OOTP when he AK's him---can a wand kill the person who owns the 
> brother wand, or is it just the wands themselves that can't "do 
> battle?"  We do know Voldemort can use his wand to Crucio Harry.


Geoff:
I think the important point here is "they will not work /against each 
other/. If one of the wands is used independently then it will work - 
viz Voldemort's use of the Cruciatus Curse, mentioned above. It's 
when they come into eyeball to eyeball contact, so to speak, that 
they refuse to work.