Priori Incantatem Order/Polyjuice Potion

[jazzman4 at earthlink.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 2228

Sorry again, Monika, but upon a repeated read of your suggestion, I 
must raise another cavil.

If Voldemort is accompanied to Godric's Hollow by a cadre of Death 
Eaters, one of whom retrieves his wand, there is no need for the Gang 
of Five (Bartemius Crouch, Junior, et al) to try to coax information 
on the Dark Lord's whereabouts from Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom.

Consider.  Bertha Jorkins and Frank Bryce are both killed with 
Voldemort's wand.  Before any of the deep cover Death Eaters knows
for 
certain that a re-embodiment is in the works.  This leaves Peter 
Pettigrew and Professor Quirrel as the only ones who could have 
had the opportunity to return the wand to Voldemort.  I feel we can 
dismiss Quirrel as a candidate by virtue of the face that Quirrel's 
death in Volume One leaves Voldemort in the same fix he found himself 
in in 1981. i.e., bodiless and unable to hold a wand.  So, we examine 
Peter Pettigrew's opportunities.

We know that an Animagus transforms not only his/her body, but also 
his personal effects when making the switch to and from human form.  
Otherwise, we are faced with the somewhat disturbing image of Peter 
and Sirius showing up buck nekkid whenever they revert to human form, 
and the no-less-disturbing image of a nude Professor McGonnagal 
chatting with Albus Dumbledore in the wee, small hours of All Saints 
Day in Privet Drive.  Presumably, anything in pockets also makes the 
transition with the Animagus, so a wand is possible, theoretically.  
So Scabbers the Rat could have been carrying Voldemort's wand around 
in his gall bladder or some such place for twelve years, at which
time 
Lupin and Black force him to resume his human form, in which...well, 
I'll be switched.  Peter is entirely wandless in the Shrieking Shack! 
(Else, why did he have to steal Ron's wand to make his bid for
rat-dom 
 once again?)

So we have two plausible candidates for the title of Custodian of the 
Wand.  But both of them need to overcome too many logical
restrictions 
to actually be the custodian.  I suspect that Ms Rowling will have 
thought up the solution to this particular little mystery, and it
will 
turn out to be entirely different from anything we hve seen here.
--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Monika Huebner <monika at d...> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 07:29:59 -0000, jazzman4 at e... wrote:
> 
> >My own belief is that Voldemort does not in fact have his original 
> >wand; in any event I haven't found anything plausible to explain 
how 
> >he could have retained it or retrieved it following his disastrous 
> >visit to Godric's Hollow; nor have I seen anything to cause me to 
> >believe he could have carried it around during the eleven years 
that 
> >he had no body.
> 
> The Priori Incantatem would not have been possible if he hadn't had
> his original wand. The wands would not have connected and the curses
> would not have been regurgitated. Remember how we first learned 
about
> this effect at the Quidditch match after Harry's wand had been used 
by
> Crouch Jr. to conjure the Dark Mark. So why did Voldemort still have
> his original wand? Perhaps he wasn't alone when he killed the 
Potters
> but was accompanied by one (or several) of his Death Eaters. In any
> case, he would not have been able to leave the place on his own 
after
> the AK curse he had used on Harry backfired at him. Someone must 
have
> been there to help him and this someone probably also took his wand
> and hid it in a safe place for later use.
> 
> Monika
> 
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