Survival of AK

[stbjohn2]

No: HPFGUIDX 113980

--- from GOF: 
> > "I miscalculated, my friends, I admit it. My curse was 
> > deflected by the woman's foolish sacrifice, and it rebounded
> > upon myself."

> charme wrote:
> "Rebounded on me" gives some credence to Occam's Razor comments 
> made earlier in this thread, IMO.  <snip>  If you look at the 
> statements LV made in this paragraph, it seems simple he didn't
> take aim at Lily with the AK - she jumped in the way when LV cast
> the AK curse intended for Harry instead.

Susana wrote:
> In Portuguese sounded a lot as if Lily had thrown herself in front 
> of the AK the way Fawkes did for DD in the MoM. I was going to say 
> Lily's death activated the protection and *that* destroyed the house 
> and Voldy's body (and that's why there was nothing else to come out 
> of the wand in prior incantatem), but now it seems farfetched. What 
> do you lot think?

Steve wrote:
> 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.


Sandy now:
Before I began lurking around HP discussion boards, I figured, as 
Susana and Charme suggest, that LV cast the AK at Harry, and Lily 
literally threw herself in front of it to block it. A small part of 
it ricocheted towards Harry, the rest back to LV. (I love Susana's 
comparison to Fawkes' action, a comparison I hadn't drawn myself). 
That wasn't based on deep study of canon, it just seemed the most 
likely way for the scene to play out (even if it might remind some 
people of the "super bullet" theory from the JFK assasination). 
It's interesting, Charme and Susana seem to have have come to 
opposite conclusions about that scenario, based on the same quote. 
It's true "the woman's foolish sacrifice" could refer to some other 
action on Lily's part, but to me it seems to indicate she died 
shielding her son, thereby causing the curse to rebound on Voldy.