Voldemort's wand

[gerstin at pacbell.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 15422

Hello fellow Potter-holics-

I hope this hasn't been addressed before: Does anyone have a theory 
about how Voldemort got his wand back at the end of GoF? OK, yes, he 
received it from Wormtail, but how did Wormtail get a hold of it? 
Voldie used the wand to kill James and Lily, then was struck down by 
his own curse deflected off Harry. At that point, Voldie (by his own 
admission, in the GoF scene where he described all this to Harry and 
the DeathEaters) was bodiless, not a ghost, but not alive either. He 
obviously couldn't have picked up the wand. So that means the wand is 
lying there in the ruin of the Potter home? (And, by the way, what 
happened to Voldie's body?? James' and Lily's bodies were there in
the ruins, right?? No mention of another body....)

So, any theories about how the wand went from the Potter home, to 
being in Wormtail's possession? Does it really seem likely that 
Wormtail had the presence of mind to head over to the Potter home
upon learning of Voldie's defeat, and pick up the wand? That seems
unlikely to me. But if not him, then who? And how did he/she know to go 
find the wand?


Thanks!

-Ed
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