Babbling on on Avada Kadavra mechanics

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No: HPFGUIDX 172637

> Ken says:
>
> Yes, I've been puzzling over the two AK attempts as well.  Why were
> the results different?  What stopped Harry being killed each time?
>
> In the forest did he survive because:

> b. he was de facto master of the wand and it would not kill its
> master.  But if this was the reason why did it not rebound and kill
> Voldemort there and then.  Did the wand know he was its master before
> he declared himself so before the second AK attempt?

I definitely thought Harry would escape death in the forest by having
the 3 Hallows, although that wasn't what Rowling indicated by the
Kings Cross chapter.  However your hypothesis (b) here makes a lot of
sense to me.  Harry was owner of the wand and it could not kill Harry, so therefore it killed the part of Harry that was not him - the Voldemort bit!  That's why I think the spell did not rebound and kill Voldemort there and then, because it had found part of Voldemort in Harry and eliminated that.

But the force of the spell was so profound and the fact it killed
something that had been w/ Harry since he was a child, it knocked
Harry into this "experience" with Dumbledore.

Additionally, I can't help but wonder if Voldemort didn't have a
similiar "experience" as Harry in this scene.  When Harry comes to, he realizes that Voldemort had been thrown to the ground as well. Harry wondered if striking him had hurt Voldemort.  I wonder if Voldemort wasn't actually experiencing life as that shriveled non-human baby thing? Perhaps Voldemort went to the white place too and saw what it would be like if he continued? But he awoke and didn't care, whereas the experience changed Harry?

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