[HPforGrownups] Re: Priori Incantatem Order/Polyjuice Potion

[Monika Huebner]

No: HPFGUIDX 2245

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 06:39:01 -0000, jazzman4 at earthlink.net wrote:

>This leaves Peter 
>Pettigrew and Professor Quirrel as the only ones who could have 
>had the opportunity to return the wand to Voldemort.

I assume it was Pettigrew himself. Perhaps he was with Voldemort the
night the Potters died, and perhaps there weren't other Death Eaters
present.

>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.  

I have always wondered how they do this. ;) 

>So Scabbers the Rat could have been carrying Voldemort's wand around 
>in his gall bladder or some such place for twelve years, 

I don't think so. If it was him who retrieved Voldemort's wand, he
must have hidden it somewhere in a safe place. As for his own wand,
I'm sure he lost it when he chose to become a rat. He did not have a
wand in the Shrieking Shack (as you have pointed out), and he hasn't
got one _now_, since he committed all his crimes with Voldemort's
wand.

>(Else, why did he have to steal Ron's wand to make his bid for
>rat-dom 
> once again?)

You don't need a wand for the Animagus transformation. We see Sirius
do it all the time, and he definitely does not have a wand. He took
Ron's wand in the Shrieking Shack to disarm Harry, and later he used
Snape's wand to force Pettigrew to show himself. The Animagus
transformation is the only magic we see him do since, because he has
_no_ wand.

>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.

I'm with you here, and I hope her solution will be better than
anything that has been said so far. ;)

Monika


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