Pettigrew's and Voldemort's wands

[justanopinion2001 at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25260

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., cynthiaanncoe at h... wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
I never saw this before.  Maybe Pettigrew grabbed Cedric's wand and 
used that?

Laura