Problems at the end of GOF

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Richard Jones:

>(1) How did the "shades" of Cedric and Frank Bryce and Lily and 
James 
>know all they knew?  How did the shades know what was going on or 
>about the golden thread connection or what to do?  How did they know 
>there was a portkey there?  What goes on inside the wands?

I really did not like the handling of this scene AT ALL so I never 
spent much time speculating on it.  I just had to accept that it 
happened with a grain of salt and move on.

>(2) Inside the maze, Harry had his wand point north, but how did 
that 
>help him find the trophy?  If he was east or west of the trophy, it 
>would just lead him right past it.  It wouldn't be any help except 
at 
>the very entrance.

I just took his compass wand to be an assist that made sure he wasn't 
going in circles.  It's very easy to get completely lost in a maze, 
and this way he could make sure he was at least going in a direction 
and not spinning around.  As long as he tried to make sure he was 
going "south and west", for example, he would at least be able to 
maintain that heading through all the twists and turns.

>And by the way, why didn't Harry or Ron or some Gryffindor fly above 
>the hedge earlier and make a map of the maze for Harry?  It was just 
>a normally growing maze and there is no mention that DD had 
enchanted 
>it.

I'm sure they would have discouraged that sort of thing!  For the 
same reason Harry didn't just "Accio Broom" again and fly straight to 
the Goblet, dispensing with the maze entirely.

>(3) And how did LV have the wand he killed James and Lily with?  At 
>Godric's Hollow, he turned into vapor so he couldn't carry it.  So 
it 
>must have just fallen down and maybe picked up by someone else at 
>Godric's Hollow, but the Death Eaters didn't know he was alive or 
>where he was and if a member of the Ministry got it they would 
>probably destroy it or keep it well protected (and even if Lucius 
>Malfoy stole it from the Ministry how would he get it to LV since he 
>didn't know LV was alive, let alone where he was?).  LV spent 13 
>years as vapor and a snake and like that, and so he couldn't carry 
it 
>in any of those states.  Wormtail was a rat and couldn't carry it.  
>LV had to have Wormtail use it in graveyard against Cedric because 
he 
>couldn't.   So how did he come to have his wand in the graveyard?

This one I've speculated about quite a lot.  I had no problem 
thinking that Peter was WITH LV the whole time, and so snatched up 
his wand and transformed.  I did have a few other questions, though.  
Did Peter also snatch up James and Lilys' wands?  I was wondering why 
Harry hadn't inherited his father's old wand, then I read SS/PS again 
and it stated that the Potter house had been destroyed - which led me 
to another question.  How did the Potter house get destroyed?  The 
curse that did in LV could possibly have destroyed the house (maybe?) 
but it seems farfetched, especially in light of the fact that Peter 
managed to get LV's wand out.  I find it more likely that Peter 
torched the house, hoping to kill Harry and cover his tracks.  He 
would be too scared to attempt to kill Harry after LV's failure, but 
I wouldn't put it past him to go the arson route, thinking that by 
the time the rubble was sorted, Peter would be long gone.

Nicky Joe