What does a failed Death Curse look like?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 103409

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> SSSusan:
> >>> This isn't a challenge to your budding theory or anything, but 
> one question I have is this:  Is it possible that Voldy killed Lily, 
> then went & killed James, and then finally cast the spell which 
> scarred Harry & vaporized himself--just as we've all thought, only 
> with the parents getting coffed in reverse order than we'd thought--
> and it's just that Priori Incantatum was HALTED before we could see 
> what that spell "looked like"??
> Or is my logic faulty here?<<<
 
> 
> Kneasy: 
> > Erm, I don't think that's  possible.
> > Unless my logic is faulty ...) the spell that appears directly 
> > after Bertha should be the final one he cast at GH, the one that 
> > rebounded. ... 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.


> 
> SSSusan again:
> No, darn it, you've not misunderstood--MY logic is indeed faulty.
> ... You're quite right.  Whatever vaporized Voldy would've come 
> BETWEEN the two Potter parents & Frank Bryce in PI. 
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan

asian_lovr2:

Susan, you are correct, that is where the vapor!Voldy spell should
have appeared. Just one question; what does a failed death curse look
like? 

All the other death curses showed the body of a dead person, but no
one died from that one particular curse. Harry is a live, and in this
scene, Voldy is very much alive. So what should we have seen? Answer:
we don't know and neither does Harry, and neither does the rest of the
wizard world for that matter, because a Death Curse like this, to
anyone's knowledge, has never before occured in history.

Conceivably, something came out of the wand that had no recognisable
shape, form, or sound, or possibly a failed/rebounded non-fatal Death
Curse has not shape, color, form, or sound. 

Only one person can say, and she isn't.

Steve/asian_lovr2