Avada Kedavra and Godric's Hollow

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No: HPFGUIDX 113595

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "khilari2000" <hannah at r...> wrote:
> There have been a lot of theories about this lately, and
> about the question we should have asked,ie why LV did
> not die when the curse rebounded. But what occured to 
> me recently was, why did his body disintegrate? Avada 
> Kedavra kills without leaving a mark, we know that from
> canon. On the other hand inanimate 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?

As others have pointed out, we don't know what happened
to the corporate Voldy, though since there's no mention of his
corpse specifically it's a reasonable assumption that it probably
disintegrated somehow. Though we could get into a lot of 
trouble making assumptions with a writer that deliberately
concocts red herrings for the sheer fun of it.

AKs though. A few of us on site wonder if Voldy actually cast
an AK at Harry or if it was something else entirely. When you
consider what we've been told, well - it makes you think.

There is no defence or counter-curse to an AK. Yet Harry was
protected.
AKs leave bodies unmarked. Yet Harry has a scar.
AKs are a green flash. Harry remembers one - presumably
the one that killed Lily, because after it he hears a high pitched
laugh - so it wouldn't be the one that 'bounced'; Voldy was
still under the impression he was in charge. But  he doesn't
remember a second flash -  the one that was supposedly 
thrown at him.

If by some miracle and underhand work by JKR an AK had
been thrown at Harry and bounced (leaving an absolutely
unique scar) and hit Voldy, where is Voldy's unmarked body
and why the hell did the house collapse into ruin?

AKs may crack a headstone or even ignite a desk, but that's
if they miss the person they're aimed at. But blow up a house
- when they've already bounced off one body and hit another 
squarely enough to separate body from spirit? 
Does not compute. This AK does not obey any of the known
characteristics of AKs:
You can be shielded against it,
It leaves physical marks,
It ain't green,
It causes massive damage,
It leaves bits of the casters mind in the target.  

So look at it another way, if the spell/curse did not behave
like an AK maybe it wasn't an AK after all. There's only one
person in the books that says it was an AK and that's dear
departed Crouch!Moody. And how would he know? 
Ans. He wouldn't. He's making an assumption, at the same
time that he's repeatedly telling us that there is no defending
against an AK.

Remember Ted Sturgeon's Second Law: "There's more ways
to futter a cat than by stuffing its head in a sea-boot."
Voldy intended the death of Harry, but not by AK.
Voldy was having fun trying to access the power in Harry
(and mentioned right at the begining of the Prophecy) for his 
own uses. When the spell bounced it did to him exactly what
he intended for Harry - it blew his mind.

Kneasy