Priori Incantatem ( was Why Voldemort would Spare Lily)

[macfotuk at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 112086

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "huntergreen_3" 
<patientx3 at a...> wrote:
> Hannah:
> >>why does Lily stand there and plead? She's a talented witch<snip>

to which 

> HunterGreen:
> She pleads instead of using her wand because she *wanted* him to 
kill 
> her. 

> I think the reason he didn't kill her right off is that perhaps AK 
> takes a lot of energy and since she was merely in his way, he was 
> more interested in Harry than in her. 

MacFoTUK now writes:

Not sure on that last part - maybe AK *does* drain you but then he'd 
already AK'd James and is, after all, a 'powerful' (THE darkest) 
wizard. 

As I've said (not uniquely) before, I believe Voldemort (or his 
wand) killed James for some reason other than that he was simply one 
loving parent protecting a child - could be James had just been a 
thorn in his side just one too many times or that Snape wanted LV to 
kill him because he stood in Snape's way to Lily (LV having 'debts' 
to Snape, e.g. for immortality/death-defeating potion?).

The real point of this post though  is as follows:

I asked myself this question - 'Where in canon does it say that LV 
killed James *and then killed Lily* (before going on to try to kill 
Harry)?' - we hear that he did both, but we haven't seen the killing 
yet in enough detail (book 6 or more likely 7 IMO) to know much 
about process and detail. However, LV's own wand in GoF tells us 
during the priori incantatem regurgitation that it (in reverse order 
and scuse me if recall doesn't get it all right) crucio'd Harry, 
Pettigrew's silver hand, cricio'd Harry again, AK'd Cedric (at 
Pettigrew's hands) Crucio'd Pettigrew and possibly others, AK'd the 
Riddle's gardener Frank Bryce, AK'd Bertha Jorkin, and then 
(resolving the 'mistakes' between early vs late editions) AK'd Lily 
and James. Where is the AK sent at Harry? - It seems distinctly 
MISSING!. Was it done using a different wand (somehow I doubt this) 
or is it the AK that killed Lily was in fact the spell which rebound 
from Harry thus killing Lily, evaporating Voldie into part dalek-
like wrath/spirit subhuman and fusing the rest of him by a ehrwaz-
shaped (sp?) scar into Harry and blew up most of GH into the 
bargain? If the latter then LV never intended to kill Lily and, in 
fact, didn't try, but she died in the magic that protected Harry, 
rebounded the spell, blew up Godric's Hollow and nearly even saw off 
LV (certainly ended his powers for 13 years - is 13 significant?).

BTW we know nothing about which of these spells were actually 
performed by LV himself since we know Cedric died at Pettigrew's 
hand using LV's wand and he or others might have wielded the wand 
for some of the other spells (e.g. Barty Crouch Jr using Harry's for 
summoning the dark mark at the Quidditch world cup).

Anyone got a theory?