Question about the Priori Incantatem sequence in GoF

slgazit slgazit at sbcglobal.net
Wed Oct 8 00:48:57 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 82485

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "slgazit" <slgazit at s...> 
wrote:
> > 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? 

> 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.

Wormtail used a wand afterwards to conjure ropes to tie Harry and to 
make the potion. A wand is used to light the fire under the 
caulderon. And I am fairly certain that he had to have a wand when he 
chanted the incantation needed for the potion to work ("Bone of the 
father...", "Flesh of the servant...", "Blood of the enemy"...). 
Interestingly none of the above shows in the Priori Incantatem 
sequence (we'd expect to see flames, ropes conjured, no?).

Perhaps he did have his own wand to perform the later spells, but 
then why didn't he use it to kill Cedric?

[ why Priori Incantatem did not show the scar-causing AK? ]

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

Well, a spell that produces a silver hand shows in the PI sequence as 
a hand. A Cruciatus curse is expressed as screams. Presumably we 
should see either a scar - or a dead Voldemort from that AK 
backfiring?

Salit






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