Question about the Priori Incantatem sequence in GoF

[corinthum]

No: HPFGUIDX 82527

Salit asked:
 
> > > 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.

Kneasy:

> Hmm. We don't see any prior spells at all. What we see are the 
*results*
> of prior spells, mostly ghostly representations of victims and 
screams.
> The spells would just be flashes of green light.
> 
> When Diggory checks Harrys wand after the QWC in GoF, a ghostly 
> copy of the Dark Mark is produced. Again, the result, not the spell.
> 
> Since the spell that marked Harry and blasted Voldy must have been
> powerful, I would have expected to see the results  of it (at the 
very
> least the shade of a shattered Voldemort) emerge from the wand.
> 
> Or am I being too logical?


It has been theorized before that possibly the spell was skipped 
because it didn't function properly.  We usually assume that the AK 
simply baxckfired on Voldemort, and his previous experiments in 
immortality protected him from death.  However, we haven't been given 
any hard facts about that fateful spell.  I don't think it was the 
spell itself, but rather a default reponse to AK and the mystery 
defensive spell colliding, that de-bodied Voldemort, destroyed the 
house, etc.  If this is true, then those affects can't be defined as 
a direct result of Voldemort's wand.  The actual result of 
Voldemort's AK (i.e. nothing) does appear in the Priori Incantatem 
sequence.

-Corinth