Dream on. Back to the Dream. Was: Survival of AK

[Matt]

No: HPFGUIDX 114316

Mandy wrote (in response to Kneasy):
 
>> I support your GH theory of possession. That LV wasn't 
>> trying to kill Harry at all and did not cast an AK on 
>> him, but instead tried to possess him and was ejected 
>> by the protection Lily placed over Harry when she died.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Harry's memory of the green flash was the AK that killed 
>> his mum, right before LV jumped into his head and Harry 
>> passes out with pain as he did at the end of OotP. It 
>> is the only physical representation of that event that 
>> he remembers. He was too young to talk really understand 
>> language so his brain processes it as sound and light.
 
Kim replied:

> I still think (dare I say, know?) that the last green 
> flash Harry saw was from the Avada Kedavra Voldemort 
> aimed at him, that is, the AK that ended up rebounding 
> onto Voldemort. If the last green flash Harry saw was 
> from the AK that killed Lily, why would JKR say this at 
> the Edinburgh Festival this past summer?  Quote "..I 
> really thought this one through. Harry did not see his 
> parents die. He was one year old and in a cot at the time.  
> Although you never see that scene, I wrote it and then 
> cut it...").  
>
> [snip]
>
> For more substantiation, here's another quote from JKR 
> from the festival, same Q&A session:
> 
> "The first question that I have never been asked ... is 
> Why didn't Voldemort die? Not Why did Harry live? but Why 
> didn't Voldemort die?  The killing curse rebounded, so he 
> should have died. Why didn't he?"
> 
> The killing curse (Avada Kedavra) she's talking about was 
> the killing curse LV aimed at Harry.  

Just wanted to point out that it's not just the interviews that tell
us about what happened in Godric's Hollow.  The protagonist himself
tells us during the graveyard scene in GF:

"You all know that on the night I lost my powers and my body, I tried
to kill him. His mother died in the attempt to save him -- and
unwittingly provided him with a protection I admit I had not
foreseen.... I could not touch the boy....
I miscalculated, my friends, I admit it. My curse was deflected by the
woman's foolish sacrifice, and it rebounded upon myself."

What reason would Voldemort have for lying about what he did and did
not do?

-- Matt