[HPforGrownups] Voldemort's wand

[Doreen]

No: HPFGUIDX 15431

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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Who would know better as to where to go to retrieve the wand than Pettigrew,
the Secret Keeper?

If he did, indeed, retrieve Voldie's wand, could that explain what happened
when he met up with Sirius Black? Could he have used Voldie's wand to try to
kill Black, and being not his own wand, it misfired and killed the Muggles?
Oh, wouldn't that be a neat idea, except for that dratted wand order
thingy....

Okay, how about Pettigrew got Voldie's wand, with thoughts of it making him
more powerful than Voldie? Voldie doesn't even have a body ... now he
doesn't have a wand either ... but ... how does a rat, even an Animagi rat
... keep a wand? What did he do with the wand while he was the Weasley
family's pet rat?

I would like to know how everyone "knows" what happened at the Potter house.
There lie James & Lily Potter, dead. There lies baby Harry, alive and with a
new scar on his forehead. There lies Voldemort, James, and Lily's wands. No
sign of Voldemort, though. Why would he leave his wand behind?

How did they come to the FIRST conclusion that what "happened" did happen?
Who was the first person on the scene right after it happened?

Doreen, going back to the books to see if she can find anything that answers
this.