Lily died before James? - No Room for Error.

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No: HPFGUIDX 103320

Kneasy wrote:
> Unless my logic is faulty (getting old, getting old) the spell 
> that appears directly after Bertha should be the final one he 
> cast at GH, the one that rebounded. Unless of course, someone 
> else used his wand, which would be a bit of a swizz IMO. For the 
> sequence to end before we get to that spell would require Voldy 
> to be destroyed before tackling Lily and James. Or it wasn't the
> rebound from Harry that nailed him, but another spell entirely.


Your logic agrees with mine -- James and Lily were killed before 
the attempt on Harry, Bertha Jorkins (long) after the attempt on 
Harry, therefore the Curse That Failed, the cornerstone of the 
plot,  would have shown up in between these two shadows at 
the end of GF-- except nothing did!  Interesting!

Several possibilities...LV did not use the wand (although we see 
him pointing a wand at Harry in the film of SS).  LV used a 
different wand (why would he?).  Because the curse did not succeed, 
the wand did not register it.  But even though it did not succeed 
something powerfully magical happened -- so powerfully magical that 
it is the key to the series!  Interesting that there's this blank 
space in the wand's memory!

Jamie