Comments on: Priori Incantatem

By: Erin

Erin — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:21:38 +0000

Here’s a question: A high, cold voice (Voldemort) says, “Kill the spare.” A second voice (Wormtail) actually performs the curse that kills Cedric. After Voldemort gains his body and is robed, he pulls his wand out of a pocket in his robe. But then Cedric comes out of Voldemort’s wand.

Did Wormtail use Voldemort’s wand and then put the wand in the robe pocket? When would he have done that with the making of the potion and writhing on the ground in pain? Would Voldemort have ALLOWED Wormtail to even use his wand? I just can’t see Voldemort allowing Wormtail to use his wand.

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:42:53 +0000

I really like the theory that Crouch Jr. could only add another step to the portkey, because I always thought that Voldemort wanted to keep the entire thing secret. However, I’d always thought of it differently.

Kind of like what Clabwab says, I had assumed that portkeys were of two distinct types, those that leave at a specific time, a kind of one-way trip, and those that are more like a backwards-forwards gateway between two places. I can’t see Voldemort sending Harry’s body back when no evidence is better than something which could give even a little bit of information. As to why James knew that the cup would take Harry back, I just thought he knows that it’s a backwards-forwards kind.

By: rtozier

rtozier — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:58:03 +0000

I think it makes sense to combine two of the theories on here re: LV’s Portkey plans/why the cup returned to Hogwarts. It was planned to return to the edge of the maze for purposes of spectacle, CrouchMoody added on the interim destination, and told LV, who then said, “well, tell you what, we’ll use that to send his body back to Hogwarts”, thus taking advantage of the Tournament’s plans for his own ends.

By: Casey

Casey — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:48:08 +0000

**SPOILERS**
I agree that Voldemort coming back through the Cup just isn’t his style. And it just doesn’t make sense. Voldemort was even talking about rebuilding his army in the graveyard, and let’s face it, once Hogwarts is gone, he has nothing left really. Even the Ministry pales in comparison, as DH shows us. The only place that doesn’t fall really, is Hogwarts. Voldemort knows he couldn’t ever take it on just being reborn, with only a handful of Death Eaters on his side. At first I liked the idea of the trip to the graveyard just being an intermediary trip for the Cup, but now I’m leaning more towards Voldemort wanting to send Harry’s body back. As it was said above, it is so his style, and would allow him to work in secret. It just makes the most sense to me.

Samantha, I don’t know why this hasn’t been brought up yet, but Priori Incantatem does bring up all the spells. The screams are the Cruciatus Curse, then there’s the hand, and then the murders. I’m not sure why Imperio didn’t show up (maybe it only shows up when the spell worked?), and what would the “iron hand” bending Harry into a bow count as? Certainly not Imperio. Other than these two inconsistencies, I’m pretty sure that’s all that wand did.

By: Grace has Victory

Grace has Victory — Sat, 28 May 2011 01:29:18 +0000

Pam, Voldemort could not have killed Harry. Harry was protected by his mother's blood until his seventeenth birthday. As long as he returned to Privet Drive each summer (which he did), he was protected everywhere, not just at Privet Drive. Of course, neither Harry nor Voldemort knew that at the time. The danger must have felt real to Harry - and it certainly did to us readers! Maria, this is also correct. Once Voldemort had taken Harry's blood, Harry was doubly protected. Now he couldn't be killed as long as Voldemort was alive. It does raise the question of why Dumbledore still insisted that Harry return to Privet Drive every summer. Perhaps he thought they might be incredibly lucky and kill Voldemort off before Harry was seventeen. In that case, there still might be a few Death Eaters pursuing Harry, so Dumbledore must have felt that it was worth giving Harry the extra protection.

By: Maria

Maria — Sat, 21 May 2011 06:01:15 +0000

“SPOILER”
I think if Voldemort had used another wand he wouldn’t have killed Harry.Voldemort couldn’t kill Harry because he had already used Harry’s blood to get the protection of Lily.He thinks that this protection makes him stronger (and in some way, this made him stronger,because he was able to touch Harry’s head) but using Avada Kedavra,it doesn’t work that way.We saw it in book 7 and the chapter “forest again”.

By: Hieronymus Graubart

Hieronymus Graubart — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:55:45 +0000

Does any of the theories about the portkey explain how PI-James could know and tell Harry that the cup would take him back to Hogwarts?

By: Leah

Leah — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:47:36 +0000

I’m 99% positive the point of the Portkey going back was to take Harry’s corpse back. The point of Voldemort’s elaborate Triwizard Tournament plan, as opposed to fake Moody calling Harry in his office one day and giving him a Portkey-coffee-cup, was not only to get at Harry when he was not protected but to make his death look like an accident. It would have been suspicious if Harry just disappeared from school one day, or his dead body was lying in Moody’s office. Voldemort likes to create fear and work in the background – there is NO way whatsoever he would declare himself at Hogwarts. Harry’s dead body in the maze would be plausible, as the maze was dangerous and Harry was young. Voldemort would be back and NO ONE at Hogwarts would have any idea – I know they didn’t really believe him anyway, and there would be suspicion, but not even the Order would be positive. Imagine the power Voldemort would have working in that kind of secrecy, like he had in OotP but even more so, as DD wouldn’t even know the details.

By: John Kearns

John Kearns — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:38:17 +0000

Federico, you’re definitely right – and given the fact that later on we see Horcruxes with anti-Summoning charms on them (that work no matter where they’ve been placed) it doesn’t make a lot of sense that the Cup wouldn’t be given the same protection. I like your theory that the entire maze was under that enchantment, though. Or perhaps the Cup was in a ring of protection of some sort, like the Age Line that Dumbledore used on it earlier, to prevent both Summoning and other, more sinister enchantments?

By: Federico

Federico — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:02:35 +0000

It seems a little odd that the Cup could be summoned, it would have made it just too easy for the champions to touch it, I think that’s an oops (or maybe nothing could be summoned once you were inside the maze?) Anyway, it seems a little weird that thet didn’t even try to do it…