Question about the Priori Incantatem sequence in GoF
slgazit
slgazit at sbcglobal.net
Tue Oct 7 19:37:09 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 82457
I am a fairly new reader here, so forgive me if this question was
raised before.
In the fight between Harry and Voldemort, Harry manages to get
Voldemort's wand to emit prior spells. We know there was a flint wrt
the order of appearance of his parents, so I will not mention that.
Still, there are two other curiosities there that I have never seen
discussed (perhaps they were in the past?):
1. Why is Cedric coming out of the wand when it was Wormtail (on
Voldemort's order "Kill the spare") who has actually done the
killing? He must have used Voldemort's wand, but why? Does he not
have his own? Note we never see him holding a wand after Voldemort is
restored, but there is no mention of his stowing the wand inside the
robes which Voldemort later wears and from a pocket of which
Voldemort removes it.
2. Priori Incantatem is supposed to play back all the spells
performed by the wand. We see Wormtail's hand, a number of dead
people and we hear the screams (result of the misc. Crucio's I
assume). The one spell we don't see, which should have been there -
right before the first of Harry's parents appeared - should have been
the AK curse that marked Harry's forehead. But there is no mention of
it. Has JKR ever explained that, or does someone else cares to try
and guess? :-)
Salit
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