Priori Incantatem and the misplaced spell
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Jul 11 22:25:39 UTC 2006
No: HPFGUIDX 155223
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "katssirius" <katbofaye at ...> wrote:
katssirius:
> I was re-reading GOF in the midst of the Harry as horcrux discussion
> and I wonder where is the spell that should be between Bertha Jorkins
> and Lily Potter. Shouldn't Voldemort have come out of that wand since
> he killed himself accidentally. Is this an oversight by JKR or was
> another wand used? It also occurs to me that in Book 7 Voldemort is
> going to choose someone else to kill Harry, either Wormtail or Snape,
> to avoid the reoccurance of priori incantatem. IMO, each of them has
> some kind of karmic debt to Harry. Snapes's is unknown at this point.
> Any ideas why this misplaced spell did not show up while they were
> encased in the golden web?
Geoff:
But Voldemort didn't "kill" himself. He became disembodied. I have said
previously I do not believe that that particular casting of the spell did
produce a result which could create one of the "reverse echoes" of those
who had been killed.
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