What does a failed Death Curse look like?

[inkling108]

No: HPFGUIDX 103534

Steve <asian_lovr2 at y...> wrote:
> > 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 alive, and in this scene, Voldy is very much 
> > alive. 

Kneasy <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> That point is arguable, IMO.
> 
> There should be a dead Voldy body somewhere, cluttering up 
> the scenery. He arrived at GH in corporate form; he left it 
> as a spirit entity. What happened to the body he arrived in? 
> Can't it considered to have been 'killed'? Even Voldy says 
> "I was ripped from my body" so where is it? A body with no 
> life equals AK scores 1, no matter that it wasn't the intended 
> target. It should show on the replay and it doesn't.


Hi, this is Jamie (Inkling), with a far out theory -- but it seems 
like whatever could explain this would have to be far out, so here 
goes --

Maybe it works something like this:  what shows up as an echo 
from the wand during Priori Incantatem is the shadow of the 
visible result of the spell in question:  for example, Wormtail's 
silver hand, shades of the victims of the AK curse (represented 
in the physical world by their corpses), Crouch Jr's Dark Mark at 
the beginnning of GF.

Logically, the visual result(s) of the curse that failed would be at 
least two -- Harry's lightening scar and what ever became of 
Voldy's body when he was ripped from it.  However it is possible 
that these visible signs were not caused by the spell itself but by 
the initial encounter between Harry and Voldemort?

This involves some magical metaphysical speculation, but what 
if in some mysterious way, Harry and Voldermort share a core 
element, much as their wands do?  It's often repeated that they 
have a lot in common, and they are very deeply linked through 
the scar, but what if the scar itself is a product of that link, and 
was produced by some metaphysical process that is similar to 
what happens when brother wands attempt to do battle?  JKR 
has said that the shape is not the most important thing about the 
scar, implying that there is something crucial about this scar that 
has not been revealed yet.

So what might have happened is something like this:  the 
encounter between Voldy and the infant Harry unleashes a force 
that causes Voldy's wand to "short circuit" or "crash" when he 
attempts the AK curse.  Hence no record of the results.  The 
results are unprecendeted in the magical world -- Harry survives 
the AK curse, acquires a scar with a unique shape and 
properties, Voldemort is torn from his body but does not die.
So it would seem that the force that produced these results went 
beyond the kind of ordinary spell magic recorded in a wand and 
revealed through Priori Incantatem.  It is more powerful, and 
obeys different laws.  Even though the wand may have started 
the chain reaction through attempting to transmit the curse, what 
happened went way beyong the curse or the wand.  Not even 
Dumbledore fully understands it.  Voldemort was completely 
blindsided by it.  It was so powerful it wrecked the house.  

Then the question would be, what is the "shared core" of Harry 
and Voldemort?  Maybe the reason Harry is the only one who 
can defeat Voldemort is because he is the only one who has this  
in common with him?  Voldy chose Harry instead of Neville 
because he was a half blood like him, and he sensed that the 
boy most like him would pose the greatest threat.  Maybe he had 
no idea how right he was?

Enough speculation -- does this make any sense?

Jamie