Apparate to Possess

[Lyn J. Mangiameli]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> wrote:
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> JKR said in the Edinburgh Book Festival:
> 
> The first question that I have never been asked—it has probably been 
> asked in a chatroom but no one has ever asked me—is, "Why didn't 
> Voldemort die?" Not, "Why did Harry live?" but, "Why didn't Voldemort 
> die?" The killing curse rebounded, so he should have died. Why didn't 
> he? At the end of Goblet of Fire he says that one or more of the 
> steps that he took enabled him to survive...
> 
> http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/news_view.cfm?id=80
> 
> Here she seem to take it as obvious that in GH there was a "killing 
> curse" that rebounded and hit Voldy. Note that she starts the next 
> statement about Voldy with "he says that..." but NOT the statement 
> about the killing curse. So she tells it from her authorial POV, as 
> opposed to something Voldy claims and might be lying or in error.  
> 
> If you don't believe JKR in this, you still need to explain why Voldy 
> was blown to vapor for 13 years.
> 
> Neri

Now Lyn,

I believe JKR never deliberately lies, and generally doesn't attempt to deceive. But I don't 
feel I can always accept her statements as factual. The above, of course being more 
difficult  not to accept as an accurate recounting of her intentions as to what happened 
and will be revealed. 

Still, I do have troubles reconciling her interview statements with the rest of the 
information she has given us. Now I know that some of the below can be explained away, 
but when taken as in total, they all make it difficult for me not to question JKR's statement:

1. Harry hears his (presumably) father's words, his mother's words and LV words to his 
mother, but never hears the words AK, though presumably he is within a few feet of their 
utterance. So is JKR saying LV did not mouth the words?

2. Harry sees only a single flash of green light, again taking place within a few feet of him. 
One gets the impression it was dark or an area of low lighting, so even a light directed 
elsewhere would likely have resulted so ambient changes in light for detection.

3. In the Grave Yard,  the PI only regurgitates the spells against his mother and father, but 
nothing against Harry.  So is JKR saying LV did not use his wand?

4. We have reason to believe the AK leaves no marks, yet Harry has a scar that is attributed 
to an AK, and it is repeatedly said that LV gave him that mark (but not always that it came 
from an AK). Is JKR now saying this was a unique feature of this particular AK?

5. We have no evidence that in any other use of an AK that an entire house was blown to 
smitherines.  Again, is JKR now saying that this was an unique result of this particular AK?

6. No one other than Harry has ever been know to survive an AK. Yes, we know,the text 
has suggested that Harry is unique in this respect.


7. The scar is a locus of pain which is associated with contact with LV and there really isn't 
any reason to believe any residual from an AK should result in such an effect. Granted no 
one else has ever "survived" an AK, but has then been anything about an AK that would 
truly suggest a greater linkage between the giver and receiver in the moments before the 
receivers death?

So again, I know alternate explanations for each of these can be presented, but that is an 
awful lot of alternatives to have to take in one lump, so to speak. I don't like the seeming 
inconsistencies between all of the above and JKR's inteview comments (as well as some 
character's statements as well), but as it stands now, I see her an AK explanation for the 
events at GH to be at odds with many of the other "facts" she has given us.

Lyn