Expelliarmus and backfiring

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 184613

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "AJT" <ajt9nola83 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "happyjoeysmiley"
> <happyjoeysmiley@> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > So, how did the AK curse *backfire* on Voldy? I think backfiring
> would
> > have made sense had Harry used Protego. Not sure how Expelliarmus
> > would help with respect to backfiring.
> >
> > Any thoughts / quotes from canon?
> <SNIP>
> 
> 
> Hi, Hey do you remember in DH when Harry went into the Forbidden
> Forest to allow hiself to be killed. Well he died to protect the
> others, the same spell Lily did for him. (p.738 DH). So when Tom
> casted his spell it had no force or strength plus it was Harry's
> wand, which was not going to fully attack his Master.(Remember in 
the
> forest when Tom was playing with his body, Harry didn't feel a 
thing)
> I believe Harry's curse was much more powerful and it connected to
> Tom and when the Elder Wand started twirling in the air along with
> the Avada Kadava spell it hit Tom. Why only Tom? because Tom was not
> protected by Harry's protection.
> Hopes this helps.
> 
> AJT
>

kamion:
I think Voldy hit by a ricocheting AK curse is not what JKR had in 
mind, his curse backfired on the same kind of protection as it did 
the first time when Harry was about a year old
and did not cast an Expelliarmus.
Voldemort would have died at that time were it not he was tied to 
life by his Horcruces. This time they were all gone and he was toast.
In the first case it was Lilly's sacrifice that invoked the 
protection, in the second case Harry's selfsacrifice.
At least that what I conclude from the writing. But intertwined is 
the Mastership of the Elder Wand.

Personally I like the ricocheting AK, because it is more direct then 
the needless complicated knot JKR tied in the end.