Dumbledore's Wayward Conjectures

[Marisa Crosset]

No: HPFGUIDX 133874

Missy wrote:
> <SNIP>That's why Lily was, in his opinion, being "a silly girl" to 
give her life to protect him.  James's was the necessary death: 
Harry was only ever to be a Horcrux spell.

Marisa:
Re-reading GOF, Voldemort himself says that he was trying to 
kill Harry, but the spell rebounded (pages 652-3, US Version):

"You all know that on the night I lost my powers and my body, I 
tried to kill him. His mother died in the attempt to save him...

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

Therefore, if Harry DID become a Horcrux, it appears to be 
unintentional on LV's part.

>> It has been pointed out that this spell did not emerge from 
Voldemort's wand in GOF - maybe he used James's (or Lily's) 
wand.

Marisa:
You are quite correct that the spell that was attempted on Harry 
did not emerge from LV's wand during the priori incantatem. This 
is quite a mystery, and, still, to the best of my knowledge, 
unexplained.

On page 697 (GOF, US Version), DD says, "...one of the wands 
will force the other to regurgitate spells it has performed--in 
reverse..."

However, on the following page, DD says, "The last murders the 
wand performed."

It is unclear if a backfired or rebounded spell would therefore 
register or produce an echo. Wizards perform many, many spells 
with there wands and I am sure that LV has performed spells 
that were not murders. The only spells that appear to have 
regurgitated were the murders.

I'd love JKR to clarify a bit more on priori incantatem, however, I 
doubt that it will show that LV went to Godric's Hollow to make 
Harry a horcrux (at least intentionally). I agree with whoever said 
that he probably already had all his horcruxes in place prior to 
that time. And, indeed, that the rebounded AK did not kill, but 
"ripped him from his body" is proof-positive that he did have at 
least one horcrux (per Slughorn's description in HBP) and now 
we know that he had more than one.

Marisa