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> 7. Harry's memories of the Godric's Hollow incident (PoA chap 9)
> are interesting, particularly if you have a suspicious mind. Lily
> is pleading with  Voldy and she asks him not to 'take' Harry,  but
> to take her, kill her instead. Now 'take' can be used as an 
alternative
> for kill, as in 'take a life' but it's use here when Harry is at 
the wrong
> end of a wand seems a bit strange; 'kill' or 'hurt' would be a more
> common usage. Maybe Voldy  wanted to possess Harry too.
> 
> 8. Lily is killed, Voldy tries to nail Harry. Strangely, Harry can 
recall
> only one green flash; why not two? Some may argue that Lily was
> holding Harry and Voldy was going for two birds with one spell, but
> in that case why did the spell rebound? It hit, or partially hit, 
it's
> intended target - Lily. Why  would there be a powerful enough 
> rebound to destroy Voldy? 
> 
> 9. AKs cause no physical damage at all, judging by the state of 
Cedric.
> So how come a rebound totally destroys Voldy's body? 
> The spell transferred parts of Voldy into Harry. Seems a bit odd - 
why 
> would a killing spell transfer bits of the killer into a soon to be 
corpse?
> 
> See, it raises my paranoia index when there are loose ends like 
these
> flapping around, and if it's possible to cobble 'em together and 
come
> up with a theory as a possible explanation as to what's going on, 
it 
> makes it even more interesting. Even if nobody agrees with me.
> 
> Kneasy

Snow agreeing:
This very thought occurred to me recently but from a different angle. 
I wanted to know why in the priori incantatem we did not see or hear 
of an echo of what happened to Harry and Voldemort that night at 
Godric's Hollow. This echo should have been right before Lily's 
appearance. In searching for an answer I found the same question that 
you just posed of one green light being mentioned. If Lily were 
protecting Harry from Voldemort then he would have been in the room 
to see the green light that killed her and a second green light at 
the attempt on his own life but there doesn't appear to have been a 
second green light. 

What Harry said to Ron on his first train ride to Hogwarts was that 
all he could remember was a lot of green light
 a lot of green light? 
This sounded to me as though the green light filled the room. So I 
was off to theorize where a lot of green light could have possibly 
came from. The following "off the wall" scenario is what I came up 
with:

The way I see it, Lily's charm to protect Harry could have been a 
direct connection with Harry.  Lily connected with Harry as a shield. 
When Voldemort told Lily to move (step aside you silly girl) and she 
wouldn't she was knocked out of the way of aim physically but she had 
already shielded Harry using herself as the charm. In other words she 
wasn't physically standing in front of Harry when the AK backfired 
but the human shield charm worked as though she was in front of him. 
When the AK was deflected back onto Voldemort (like the shield charm 
with Harry and Snape during Occlumency) some of Voldemort's powers, 
instead of thoughts, backfired onto Harry. 

Harry said there was a lot of green light. If, in this theory, you 
follow the light from Voldemort's wand towards Harry, it could not 
hit Harry because Lily attached herself to Harry. So the green light 
had to find the physical body of Harry's protector. Lily may have 
been lying some feet from where Harry actually was. The green light 
then hit Lily's physical body, which was sacrificed to keep the 
shield alive so it rebounded onto Voldemort. The green light hitting 
Voldemort destroyed his body and expelled some of his powers onto 
Harry in the same manner that Snape's memories backfired to Harry. 
The initial connection between Harry and his mother allowed her 
abilities to also be instilled in Harry because her physical body was 
separated from her actual being which was connected to Harry when her 
physical body was destroyed. 

As a result this would be a lot of green light. This would also be 
the answer to my question as to why Harry's attack by Voldemort did 
not appear as an echo in the priori incantatum. It was only Lily that 
was truly attacked, protecting Harry who bares the scar of the 
attempt on his life. The scar was formed much like a rock that had 
been thrown at a window that didn't break but left a crack. The rock 
didn't break the window just like the AK did not succeed to kill 
Harry but left a scar of the attempt.