Question about the Priori Incantatem sequence in GoF

[msbeadsley]

No: HPFGUIDX 82517

> 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? :-)

If Lily literally got in the way of the AK Voldemort cast to kill 
Harry, while simultaneously casting a charm to protect him, could her 
sacrifice have resulted in (1) her death, (2) the scar/rune on 
Harry's forehead, and (3) Voldemort's loss of physicality? Do we have 
canon that Voldemort killed Lily and then tried to kill Harry after 
that? If Harry was in his mother's arms just then, the damage 
wouldn't have needed to spread out very far to both kill Lily and 
scar Harry. Sounds like pretty powerful stuff to me: her husband dead 
only moments, knowing she was looking her death full in the face, she 
held her baby in one arm and grasped her wand in her free hand. With 
her last breath she uttered some syllables she knew or hoped would 
weave themselves into something protective of her child, even as the 
green flash enveloped them both.

And then Harry's baby brain understood enough of what had happened to 
do a very primal wandless magic, bringing the entire house down (but 
not on his own head; or the protective magic was fresh enough to have 
shielded him from falling objects).

Then again, I haven't had my coffee yet this morning.

Sandy