Survival of AK

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 113863

> >
> >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.
> 

Finwitch:

Sherlock Holmes (fictional private detective by Sir Arthur Conan 
Doyle, who uses means of logic to conclude amazing things out of 
slightest clues...) has said something to that - except that he only 
had ONE remaining, which then had to be the truth. Anyway, it's one 
of the basic principles of logic, (honest, for something to be true, 
it MUST be *possible* first. It's OBVIOUS.) so it wouldn't be out of 
place in Mr Spock's mouth either. (Those Vulcans have made logic into 
a religion!)

However, in a world of magic, where it IS possible to 
be in several places at once (an impossibility in the Muggle world, 
but Hermione was in 3 places during the same hour to take her 
classes), conjure things out of thin air etc. we have to be very 
careful what we decide to eliminate as impossible!

When it comes to Voldemort/Harry surviving AK that dreadful night:
Most of the curse was reflected back to the source, therefore turning 
Voldemort into this thing, which was lesser than a ghost, but could 
possess people.

Harry got a little part (enough to make him bleed and get a scar, 
anyway).

What happened to Voldemort's body? well... Harry's 'the one with the 
power to vanquish the dark lord', so I presume Harry's magic did 
something to explode Voldemort AND the house (what else could have 
happened to it!). It left the bodies of Harry's parents intact (or 
fixed them later. Magic can't bring the dead back to life, but it CAN 
restore a body.) Baby Harry didn't know any of this, of course...

Finwitch