Wands and wandless magic

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 24783

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> Cynthia:"A couple of wand questions:
> 
>  First, where is Pettigrew's wand?  I personally think it got blown 
> up or lost) when he blew up the street.  That explains why 
Pettigrew 
> is using Voldemort's wand all the time (except for the time he used 
> Lupin's wand to stun Ron and Crookshanks)."
> 
> Good question. Your explanation might well be the right one, but it 
> could be that Pettrigrew had to hide it when he assumed rat form 
and 
> has lost it or been unable to return to it in all this time.  He 
> spent years with the Weasley family, you know.

A couple of questions.  Do we know for certain that Pettigrew doesn't 
have his wand?  In PoA, he dives for Lupin's wand, but that could 
just have been because it was easier to get at than his own, which 
could have been secreted in a pocket in his robes somewhere.

I haven't the time to trawl through all the references in GoF, but I 
am not sure if there is evidence that Pettigrew doesn't have a wand 
here, either.  I know he uses Voldemort's to kill Cedric, but it is 
possible that this was for plot development, seeing as Cedric had to 
come out of Voldemort's wand during Priori Incantatem, so he would be 
able to ask Harry to take his body back to his parents.

Pettigrew could obviously have had his wand with him throughout the 
duration of his life as a rat - he would not have thrown it away, and 
would have had it when he transformed and blew up the street during 
his confrontation with Sirius.  I have always assumed that Animagi do 
keep their wands when they transform by putting them in their robes 
for safe keeping - afterall, their robes transform as part of 
themselves - they don't transform back stark naked, do they?

It also seems unlikely that Pettigrew lost his wand during his 
Weasley pet period, because as far as we know, he remained in rat 
form the whole time.   

I am also wandering how he overpowered Bertha Jorkins - with or 
without wand?  Did he steal her's and use it against her?

Another explanation is that Voldemort, in order to humiliate 
Pettigrew and keep him in line, has confiscated it.  This seems quite 
probable to me - ensuring that Pettigrew can only do magic in order 
to help/serve Voldemort, and not for any other purpose.

Catherine