Pettigrew's and Voldemort's wands

cynthiaanncoe at home.com cynthiaanncoe at home.com
Thu Aug 30 16:46:05 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 25163

I hope you'll indulge me a bit on this priori incantantem wand order 
business, which I am aware has been done to death.  I'm aware of the 
correction, I've read the FAQs, I've read lots of messages, but 
things still don't add up for me.  

When Voldemort's wand regurgitates spells, they are:  screams, hand, 
screams, Cedric, screams, Frank Bryce, Bertha, Lily, James. 

But the text doesn't match up with this if Voldemort's wand is doing 
all the work at the graveyard.  Wormtail performs two other bits of 
magic.  After killing Cedric, he "conjured tight cords around Harry", 
tying him to the headstone.  Then, after Wormtail brings out the 
cauldron, "Wormtail was busying himself at the bottom of the cauldron 
with a wand.  Suddenly there were cracking flames beneath it."

So what's going on?  If Wormtail used V's wand to conjure ropes and 
start a fire, those spell should come out of V's wand.  

It is possible, of course, that Wormtail conjured the ropes without a 
wand.  I think the only example we have of this is when Quirrel does 
it in PS/SS.  Frankly, I always found this rather peculiar because 
Lupin, Dumbledore and Snape all need wands for this spell.  But we 
are specifically told that Wormtail uses the wand to start the fire.

Another theory is that Wormtail uses his own wand to conjure the 
ropes and start the fire, so that is why they don't come out of V's 
wand.  But this is very odd, too.  Wormtail uses V's wand to kill 
Cedric.  So in the seconds between killing Cedric and grabbing Harry, 
are we supposed to believe that Wormtail puts V's wand down and 
starts using his own?  Why would he do that?  If that is what JKR 
intends, then we know for a fact that Wormtail still has his own wand.

My theory is that this could be another mini-glitch in the priori 
incantantem, and fire and ropes should have flown out of V's wand 
during the duel (would have been really dramatic, too).  But that's 
just my theory.

Cindy

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"They run off eckeltricity, do they?" he said knowledgeably.  "Ah 
yes, I can see the plugs.  I collect plugs," he added to Uncle 
Vernon.  "And batteries.  Got a very large collection of batteries.  
My wife thinks I'm mad, but there you are."  GoF.





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