It really annoys me ...

[Cyril A Fernandes]

No: HPFGUIDX 163880

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:
>
Cyril here:

> Inge:
> > Having just gone over the Dark Mark chapter in GOF, I realised 
how easy 
> > it really was to check Harry's wand for the last spell it cast 
(The 
> > Dark Mark). It took - what.... 1½ minute to check it out?
> > 
> > Why on earth then is it, that Sirius had to go to Azkaban with 
no 
> > trial, when all they needed to do, was to check *his* wand, to 
see if 
> > he indeed *did* cast the spell that killed all the Muggles - and 
all it 
> > would have taken was a few minutes..... not much compared to 12 
years 
> > of socialising with Dementors.
> 
> Pippin:
> The Avada Kedavra curse kills only one person at a time, otherwise
> Lily could not have thrown herself in front of Harry. The curse 
used
> on the Muggles (and supposedly Pettigrew) was thought to have 
> killed thirteen people at once, and therefore could not have been
> Avada Kedavra. The Ministry, if it tested Sirius's wand for shadows
> at all, would only assume that the unknown curse had not produced
> them, though I doubt that Crouch, power mad and increasingly
> unjust, according to JKR's web site, even bothered. 
> 
> 
> Pippin
>


Cyril here:

Well, the spell that forces the wand to regurgitate its last spell 
would not be sufficient evidence in many cases, as not finding the 
spell you want is no proof that it was not cast. All the prosecution 
has to say is that after the AK or other spell that Sirius cast, he 
did the simple Lumos spell (as an example), so the previous spell 
would not show.

With regards to the ability to regurgiate more than one spell, that 
seems to be a unique situation which occured when the brother wands 
met, and may not necessarily be the case always. So we have no canon 
to support that wands can generally be forced to regurgigate more 
than one spell (or the reverse for that matter)

Cyril - feeling the importance and the difference in the way LV's 
wand regirgigated spells was quite different from what Harry's did 
at the QWC.