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.
I was right by accident. I was actually thinking of the Priori Incantato (the analytical one), which seems to behave how I described above. I didn’t remember the other one, but it just happens it doesn’t apply to the situation, since Harry didn’t have his wand yet. I’ll fix it above.
Not only does it show who the target was, it summons a pseudo-ghost if the target was the victim of a Killing Curse.
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.
I was right by accident. I was actually thinking of the Priori Incantato (the analytical one), which seems to behave how I described above. I didn’t remember the other one, but it just happens it doesn’t apply to the situation, since Harry didn’t have his wand yet. I’ll fix it above.
It’s ‘Prior (no i) Incantato’. The link in the great-grandparent is broken because you inserted an extra ‘i’.
Thank you!