Survival of AK / Occam's Razor, etc.

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No: HPFGUIDX 114399

> Bookworm:
> To paraphrase someone (Mr. Spock?): when all the impossible options
> have been eliminated, the one of the remaining options, no matter
> how improbable, is the answer.

"ujs31415"
Sherlock Holmes in, 'The Sign of Four' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
(from: http://www.bartleby.com/66/93/17693.html)

Bookworm
I'm currently watching "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered
Country". Mr. Spock just spoke this line.  But considering how
much Shakespeare has been tossed in, it isn't surprising Sherlock
Holmes was too.

To bring this back OT, here is the list of the Priori Incantatem:
screams of pain 
Wormtail's silver hand
more screams of pain
Cedric Diggory
more screams of pain
Frank Bryce
Bertha Jorkins
Lily Potter
James Potter

We know that spells other than the AK are revealed, if only through 
the screams they generate.  What was Voldemort up to between killing 
Frank Bryce and the Graveyard?  Also, there was apparently no spell 
cast between the Lily's and that of Bertha a dozen years later.  

Kneasy:
So where's the spell? Of course if it wasn't a wand spell but 
something else (something I've been banging on about for a long 
time) then that would explain it, wouldn't it?

Bookworm:
This may be more likely than my original suggestion that a different 
wand was used - although I don't rule out a second wizard there
as a witness.  JKR has given us enough hints about Harry's
wandless magic.

Ravenclaw Bookworm