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

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 124284


Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 6:15:25 AM, Jen Reese wrote:

JR> Come to think of it, all those screams of pain are inconsistent. We 
JR> hear one before Wormtail's hand appears, which is Wormtail at the 
JR> moment his hand is severed. Then another scream before Cedric 
JR> appears, but Cedric doesn't have time to react at all and certainly 
JR> doesn't scream. Frank Bryce does scream and that's duly recorded...

Actually, I think those screams are meant to correspond to instances
of V casting Cruciatus: The two before and after the hand are the ones
cast on Harry, and the one before Frank appears is the one cast
on Wormtail that Harry "sees" while asleep in Divination.  So it's all
consistant.  (Note that the narrative in Chapter 1 indicates that
Frank starts to scream *before* V says, "Avada Kedavra", so it was
out of fear, not caused by the AK.)

But the one error I *do* see is that there should have been a scream
corresponding to V's torturing of Bertha for information, in between
her appearance and that of Harry's parents.

-- 
Dave