Survival of AK / Occam's Razor, etc.

[carolynwhite2]

No: HPFGUIDX 114425

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "scoutmom21113" 
<navarro198 at h...> (Bookworm) wrote:

> 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.
> 

Carolyn:
FWIW (not a lot), I came across the following comment in an old post 
recently (21721), where the discussion was about how Harry's scar had 
been shown in some artwork:

'I asked him about the alignment of the scar (horizontal vs. 
vertical). He then relayed that he'd had a conversation with JKR 
about it, and that she had said that in her mind's eye, she saw baby 
Harry flinching away as the spell was cast, so the scar is, in fact, 
diagonal.'

You could read this as a description of instinctive, wand-less magic 
on Harry's part, defending himself as he was attacked; much as years 
later, he didn't know how he ended up on the school roof when 
escaping from Dudley's gang.

Carolyn