Long lived

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 100877

> Snow :
> 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. 

Jen: 
When you look at the people who came out of the wand (and 
Pettigrew's hand), you see only the effects of completed spells. 
I've always imagined that when Voldemort's AK hit Harry and 
backfired, the intended curse wasn't completed and therefore wasn't 
part of the Priori Incantatem.

I guess you could say the spell was completed though, just not in 
the way LV intended. So then you have to believe there was only one 
AK that rebounded off Harry and killed Lily before hitting 
Voldemort. And somewhere in all that mess, powers were transferred 
to Harry!

Snow:
> 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. 

Jen: I like your idea here, if I'm understanding right, that some of 
Lily was *also* transferred to Harry that night. Your theory reminds 
me of lightening, how it has to find a conductor, and in this case 
Lily would be that conductor of the curse.

The only thing is, how did Harry get the scar? If the AK couldn't 
touch him in any way, it would seem that Voldemort's powers could 
not be transferred to him either. He would be protected from 
anything. 

It's hard to fit in the "step aside, girl" with only one AK; Lily 
appears to be standing in front of Harry. But perhaps if she didn't 
step aside, the one AK hit both her and Harry and the force of the 
rebound off Harry is what made the scar, transferred the powers and 
reduced Voldemort to vapor.