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No: HPFGUIDX 18159

> Doreen wrote:
> > It just goes to show you how over-confidence breeds carelessness.
> > Stupid villains!
> > Doreen, who thinks the same can be said of teenagers :)
Catlady:
> Once upon a time, when PSYCH TODAY hadn't yet become so sleazy that 
I
> discontinued my subscription, an article reported a study that found
> that teenagers don't think they are invulnerable, do realize the 
things
> they do are dangerous, are scared while doing them, but they 
override
> their fear because of other priorities.

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Doreen:
And I, who have helped raise two brothers, raised three step-
children, raised three children, and am raising yet one more child, 
say that teenagers don't think before they act. They almost never can 
answer the question, "Why?" with anything better than an, "I don't 
know." I have stopped asking, "Why?"
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> Doreen asked:
> > Speaking of missing wands:
> > 1) what happened to James' wand,
> > 2) Lily's wand,
Catlady:
> I expect they were destroyed along with their home.
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Doreen:
When Sirius arrived at the Potter's house, the house was destroyed, 
but he saw the bodies. Why would the wands have been destroyed if 
their bodies were not?
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> Caatlady:
> > 4) Voldemort's wand when he lost his physical form,
> I like to think that V brought Pettigrew with him when he went to 
attack
> the Potters (in order to make sure that P was not leading him into a
> trap), and Pettigrew picked up V's fallen wand before turning into 
a rat
> and fleeing.
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Doreen:
Which makes me wonder if Voldemort, indeed, did the killing. What if 
he forced Pettigrew to do it, to show that he was really loyal to 
him, Voldemort? Pettigrew snitched on the Potters, after having been 
trusted with their secret. What would prove his loyalty more than his 
killing the Potters for Voldemort? This could also explain why the 
curse went bad, if Pettigrew was doing it with Voldemort's wand. 
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Catlady:
> > 5) the prisoners wands when they are sent to Azkaban,
> Considering that Hagrid's wand was snapped just for having been
> expelled, one would expect that the wand of anyone sentenced to life
> imprisonment would be snapped. I suppose the MoM has a locked place 
to
> keep wands of people who are being held only temporarily.
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Doreen
That would explain why Sirius doesn't have a wand, wouldn't it?

Doreen
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