[HPforGrownups] Re: Priori Incantatum

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 153929

On 6/15/06, Dave <acacia145 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Dave:
> Remember we only saw the deaths and heard the screams.  If there were
> other spells they could have been inaudible and just got lost in the
> screams and in the visions of the past deaths.

For the most part this seems to be the case, though Geoff already
pointed out that Wormtail's newly conjured hand also comes out of the
wand.  I can see how some minor spells may have been overshadowed by
the louder and more dramatic ones such as Crucio.  However, it still
seems counterintuitive that the Avada Kedavra that Voldemort fired at
Harry that then backfired on him, ripping him from his body, could be
overlooked or undramatic.

Or maybe it could...  Some have suggested that since there was no
visible result (no corpse; no hand; no Dark Mark as at the QWC; etc.),
that could account for the AK's absence.  I could see this, perhaps,
since the "Prior Incantato" effect is described as producing a
shadowy, smoky "ghost of a spell".  Perhaps it is just too difficult
to see what would amount to a ghost of (as Voldemort terms himself in
his Vapormort period) something that is less than the meanest ghost.

Still, mightn't we have expected a flash of light or something?

So my conclusion is, either the failed AK didn't show up at all,
directly because it never completed and is still "caught" or "hung up"
between Harry and Voldemort (the basis of the scar connection?); or
the effect of ghosting something less than a ghost was simply too
subtle to observe.

Peggy W., who, if that had been my wand, would have been extremely
embarrassed by what came out of it...

-- 
Peggy Wilkins
enlil65 at gmail.com