Lily died before James? - No Room for Error.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 103447

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "inkling108" <inkling108 at y...> 
wrote:

Jamie:
> 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!

Geoff:
Months ago, this point was raised and I asked then as to how would we 
expect to see a failed spell shown using a "Priori Incantatem"?  It 
didn't kill Harry, it didn't kill Voldemort on its rebound.....