Lily destroyed Voldemort?? Was: Re: Long lived

[hedwigstalons]

No: HPFGUIDX 100936

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:
> > 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.

HedwigsTalons replies:

Then, would this mean that it was LILY, and _not Harry_, who actually 
destroyed Voldemort? But, the WW perspective on it is that Harry 
destroyed Voldemort, since he is "The Boy who Lived", while Lily died 
from her sacrifice? Her wand _was_ useful for charms, according to 
Ollivander.