Avada Kedavra and Godric's Hollow

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No: HPFGUIDX 113626

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
Kneasy wrote:
<snip>
> 
> 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.  
 <endsnip>

We already have canon that not every AK works the way it should - 
priori incantatum in GoF - rare, but something completely 
unpredictable resulted. LV clearly says Adava Kadavra and fires at 
harry but Harry's counterspell (protego? expelliarmus - can't 
recall) makes something weird happen.

GH is Harry V LV but as opposed to having a wand Harry has Lily's 
protection so again the spell does something completely against 
type. This particular AK might either have been 'vicious' enough 
(i.e. LV put as much power and hate into as possible) so that when 
it failed it did so spectacularly or else the addition of 
Lily's 'old magic' and Harry inherent power, even as a 15 month old, 
added extra and devastating power.

Lastly, as a kind of extra controvesial thing - someone suggested 
Lily threw the spell at Harry - I hardly think so!!!!!!!! (even if 
not impossible to conceive). It did get me thinking though about 
whether Harry was born with green eyes or only has them since GH. Is 
there a part of Lily in her son additional to that which any mother 
(muggle or witch) normally conveys to her children?