Voldemort's Ghosts/Priori Incantatem

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 187614

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zfshiruba" <zfshiruba at ...> wrote:
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> When Voldemort's victims appear in the graveyard due to the brother wand effect, How does Bertha Jorkins know Harry's name? Obviously she'd know who Harry Potter was, but how would she know instantly that the boy she could see was Harry Potter? Do Voldemort's victims haunt him? They aren't actual ghosts, but they seem to be up to speed on events. 
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> Also, when Priori Incantatem is used on Harry's wand, it shows a ghostly form of the Dark Mark, right? So why do only the Killing Curses come out of Voldemort's wand? Why not a ghostly vision of Harry under the cruciatus or the form of Wormtail's silver hand?
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> Zfshiruba
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Carol responds:

Voldie's wand doesn't show a ghostly version of the Dark Mark; that's Harry's wand, which Barty Jr. used to cast Morsmordre. A ghostly version of the hand *does* come out of Voldie's wand and so do screams representing the Cruciatus Curse, as well as all the AK victims back to Godric's Hollow. (Wormtail used Voldie's wand to kill Cedric, so he shows up, too.) I don't recall anything representing the (failed) Imperius Curse that Voldie used on Harry, but I don't know how the narrator would depict that, anyway. Or, perhaps, Harry, the pov character, didn't notice that spell's "ghost," which wasn't as obvious as the others. He was rather preoccupied at the time. :-)

As for Bertha knowing who Harry is, she's undoubtedly heard his name since the Godric's Hollow incident and would know about the scar. Also, according to Sirius Black, she was only a year or two ahead of the Marauders in school, so she would have noticed Harry's marked resemblance to James, a Quidditch champion and well-known at Hogwarts (if primarily as a troublemaker), even if she was in a different House.

Carol, who should be editing and can't take time to quote the relevant passage for the "echoes"