Priori Incantatum and the missing AK

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 153807

I just realized today, for the first time, that in GOF when Harry
forces Voldemort's wand to regurgitate its spells (Priori Incantatem),
the failed AK that was directed at Harry does not show up, though we
should expect it to.

We see the past spells come out in reverse order: Wormtail's
regenerated hand, cries of pain associated with Crucio, victims Cedric
Diggory, Bertha Jorkins, Frank Bryce, Lily and James Potter--but there
is no sign of the Avada Kedavra that Voldemort shot at Harry, which
should have occurred immediately before Lily's regurgitated "shadow"
appeared.

What could this mean, if anything?  Is it a Flint that it is missing?
Was Voldemort's own wand not used to fire AK at Harry (seems
improbable)?  Or, perhaps it is evidence of something I have suggested
before: that because the failed curse never completed, it is "clogged
up" between Harry and Voldemort, the basis of what connects them?

My tendency is to believe the last: that because the curse couldn't
complete, its energy remains between Harry and Voldemort, and it may
be able to complete its job after Voldemort's Horcruxes are gone.  If
that is true, then the absence of AK among the Priori Incantatem
spells that emerge from Voldemort's wand is deliberate on JKR's part.

-- 
Peggy Wilkins
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