Avada Kedavra, or Going Out With a Bang

[Marissa]

No: HPFGUIDX 125187



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mizstorge" <lszydlowski at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> Any theories about the unusual effects of Avada Kedavra on the 
> Potters and Peter Pettigrew? When we've seen it used (in GoF at the 
> cemetary by Voldemort on Cedric and by pseudo-Moody in DADA class 
on 
> the spiders), there was no explosion. However, we have read about 
the 
> smouldering ruins at Godric's Hollow and about poor Peter being 
blown 
> to pieces. Because of Harry's recurring visions of green light, 
we've 
> assumed the spell used on the Potters was AK and I think we were 
> meant to assume AK was the spell used on Peter (of course, Peter 
just 
> transformed and scampered off, but whatever was done would seem to 
> have appeared to be AK to most of the Wizarding World)

Marissa:
I've always assumed the reason that Godric's Hollow blown up was not 
from using AV on James and Lily, but from the fact that when 
Voldemort used it on Harry it bounced back and hit him. It didn't 
harm Harry, and Voldemort didn't die, all unusual occurences with the 
curse, which I thought explained the unusual occurence of the house 
being blown to pieces. This could be wrong, but it's always been how 
I interpreted it.