Avada Kedavra and Godric's Hollow

[khilari2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 113588

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eloise_herisson" 
<eloiseherisson at a...> wrote:
>  Khilari:
> 
> >But what occured to me recently was, why did [Voldemort's] body 
> > disintegrate? Avada Kedavra kills without leaving a mark, we know 
> > that from canon. On the other hand inanimaate objects can be 
> blasted 
> > by it and disintegrate (I think, does this happen to the 
gravestone 
> > in GoF?)and a killing curse sets fire to the concierge's desk in 
> OotP.
> > So, in order for LV's body to be destroyed, it should have been 
> > inanimate. Is this possible? His steps towards immmortality could 
> > have ended in making his body into an object which his spirit 
> > controlled rather than a proper part of him. So the AK only hit 
his 
> > body, destroying it, but not the resident spirit.
> 
> Do we know that his body was destroyed? Voldemort says that he 
> was "ripped from" his body. If there was no body I wonder how 
exactly 
> the WW knew that Voldemort was "dead" with no witnesses to the 
event, 
> or at least ones likely to advertise it (as far as we know) 
surviving.
> 
> As you say, I think the rebounding AK *did* kill Voldemort's body, 
> but that the transformations he had undergone stopped *him* from 
> dying, leaving him still with an earthly but non-corporeal 
existence. 
> But I don't think that we know that his body was destroyed as such.
> 
> I don't think it's an AK that damages the gravestone in GoF. The 
> marble angel that Harry dives behind is damaged by spells which 
> manifest as jets of *red* light, whereas AK is characterised by 
green 
> light. We don't know what the killing curse was that set fire to 
the 
> security guard's desk, although it's a fair guess it was an AK as 
it 
> was as part of a volley of green jets of light directed at 
Dumbledore 
> by Voldemort.
> 
> It *is* inconsistent, though. If an AK can set fire to something, 
> then you would expect that even if the bodies of its victims were 
> unmarked, their clothing would show some sign of the curse.
> 
> We have to account for the effect of the failed curse on the house 
at 
> Godric's Hollow. My guess is that it was destroyed by the power 
> released when Voldemort's essence was ripped from his body (similar 
> to the power which is released in Pullmans HDM universe when human 
> and daemon are separated).
> 
> ~Eloise

It was definitely a killing curse that set fire to the desk, I 
checked. "He sent another killing curse at Dumbledore, but missed, 
instead hitting the security guard's desk, which burst into flame." 
As to the body being destroyed, perhaps I was wrong about that, does 
anyone remember LV saying anything else about this?

Khilari.