Lily died before James? - No Room for Error.

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 103615

Jamie wrote:
> 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!

Del replies :
And *what* exactly would have shown up ??

We don't see the shadows of the *curses* themselves, but the shadow of
their *results*. We hear screams of pain when a Crucio is cast, we see
ghosts when people are killed. But we never see or hear the Crucios or
the AKs.

So what could we expect to see as the shadow of the result of the
Curse That Failed ? A scar on a baby's head, the rubble of a destroyed
house, Vapormort ? Nope, because all of those things were the result
of the *rebound* of the Curse, not the result of the Curse itself. The
Curse itself had *no* result. Its only purpose is to kill, it didn't,
hence it didn't bring any result. Hence no shadow.

Del