Priori Incantatem, was: surviving AK

[Alex Boyd]

No: HPFGUIDX 113913

Eloise wrote:

> You're quite correct, Priori Incantatem is just as you describe, but 
> *Prior Incantato* *is* a spell. It is used in Ch.9 of GoF to 
> establish that Harry's wand had been responsible for conjuring the 
> Dark Mark at the QWC. They are evidently related effects as reflected 
> in the similar names and therefore confusing abbreviations.


Oh, rats!  I forgot all about this use of a
previous-spell-detecting-spell.  I *wondered* why I seemed to be the
only one who noticed that Priori Incantatem didn't work the way
everyone else thought it did.  'Cause I was the one who was wrong!  Oh
well.  

Alex