Question about the Priori Incantatem sequence in GoF

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 82479

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "slgazit" <slgazit at s...> wrote:

Salit:
> 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.
>


Geoff:
No, but bear in mind that the Avadra Kedavra which killed Cedric 
was /before/ Voldemort was restored to a body and he was still a 
rather nastier and slimier being than usual...

"..he saw that the thing in the person's arms looked like a baby... 
or was it merely a bundle of robes?"

"Wormtail pulled open the robes on the ground.... and Harry let out a 
yell... It was as though Wormtail had flipped over a stone and 
revealed something ugly, slimy and blind..."

"'Robe me', said the high cold voice from behind the steam and 
Wormtail, sobbing and moaning.....scrambled to pick up the black 
robes form the ground..."

"Voldemort slipped one of thos unnaturally long-fingered hands into a 
deep pocket and drew out a wand."

My reading is that WT used the wand to kill Cedric and then placed it 
in the pocket for LV to have when he received his new body.


Salit: 
> 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.



Geoff:
Silly question, what form would the spell take? There wasn't a dead 
body as in the case of Cedric, James et al.