[HPforGrownups] Re: Survival of AK

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 113861

 

>Kneasy
>So where is Voldy's agony? Where is his body? There was a lifeless 
>body left behind afterwards - either that or a set of special 
>effects even Tarantino would be proud of as the corpse explodes.
>
>Bookworm:
>To paraphrase someone (Mr. Spock?): when all the impossible options 
>have been eliminated, the one of the remaining options, no matter 
>how improbable, is the answer.  Either this is a major Flint, or the 
>spell was cast with a different wand.



Steve now:

I never heard Spock say it, but I don't remember all the old episodes. But
it is also from William of Occam. William was a Franciscan friar and
logician from 14 century England. Strangely enough Ockham, the village he
was from and named after, was in Surrey. Now correct me if I'm wrong but
isn't Little Winging in Surrey?

Occam's Razor, as the principle is called, states: "when you have two
competing theories which make exactly the same predictions, the one that is
simpler is the better." Or "all things being equal, the simplest answer
tends to be the right one."

I think the simplest answer based on the evidence from the books is that LV
used the AK on Lily, but not on Harry, because HP remembers the green light
after his mother's screams, but not another green light after that. I guess
we don't know for sure if there was or wasn't another AK after the one that
killed Lily. HP might not have remembered a second one yet.

Steve

            







[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]