Priori Incantatem/ Prior Incantato (was: Re: prior incantantum... )

[bleckybecs]

No: HPFGUIDX 124261


> Geoff:
> Again, this was discussed around the time of the above message - 
it 
> might be worthwhile following those threads up - and I think the 
> point was put forward that since no one was actually killed by 
that 
> Adavra Kedavra spell, there would be no "echo". Voldemort may have 
> been disembodied but he was still around as a spirit.

Thanks for all the ideas, and thanks to Geoff for the previous 
thread. I can see what you're (mostly) saying. That it was 
incomplete, so we didn't see it. But in my own mind, while I agree 
that it didn't have the *desired* effect, it still had a fairly 
dramatic effect. Enough of an effect that the WW is *still* 
discussing that night more than a decade later! I know we don't 
really know *what* we should see, but if we can see an echo of 
wormtail's hand, we should at *least* see an echo of the scar. Of 
course, it is possible that the reason JKR got Harry's parents the 
wrong way round was because she was pre-occupied with keeping this 
out
 but I still don't know. I'm just suspicious that if we had seen 
the echo we would know too much about what originally happened. 

Again, just my opinion!

Becky