Priori Incantatum and the missing AK

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 153826

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Peggy Wilkins" <enlil65 at ...> wrote:
>
> 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.

Geoff:
Inevitably, thie topic has been looked at before.
The following is from message 112105:

<quote>
macfotuk
> The real point of this post though is as follows:
            
<snip>

> However, LV's own wand in GoF tells us
> during the priori incantatem regurgitation that it (in reverse order
> and scuse me if recall doesn't get it all right) crucio'd Harry,
> Pettigrew's silver hand, cricio'd Harry again, AK'd Cedric (at
> Pettigrew's hands) Crucio'd Pettigrew and possibly others, AK'd the
> Riddle's gardener Frank Bryce, AK'd Bertha Jorkin, and then
> (resolving the 'mistakes' between early vs late editions) AK'd Lily
> and James. Where is the AK sent at Harry? - It seems distinctly
> MISSING!.

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Geoff:
Priori Incantatem shows the result of a spell, i.e. Wormtail's hand, 
the "wraiths" of  Cedric, Frank Bryce etc.

Since the Avadra Kedavra directed at Harry didn't have that sort of 
outcome, it has nothing to show on "replay". Would it show the  
spellcaster disappearing into a grey mist or something similar? I 
have my doubts.
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