Comment on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 13, chapter 81

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:09:21 GMT

Priori Incantatem doesn’t show who was target, though,

Not only does it show who the target was, it summons a pseudo-ghost if the target was the victim of a Killing Curse.

and shows only the last spell IIRC,

The one in canon showed at least the last four or five, I'm pretty sure.

Edit: Whoops, sorry, didn't get the context. "Priori Incantatem" is the brother-wand effect, "Prior Incantato" is the analytical spell, which we know a lot less about- I don't believe there's evidence either way whether it's possible to use it to display the target or show multiple spells.

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