Missing wands (was:Re: Various comments/ponderings/questions on Voldemort an...

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 42983

Richelle:
> Eloise writes: [re Voldemort's wand]
> 
> > He could have had it with him then; we don't know that he didn't. Clothes
> and
> > wands, etc. transform along with the animagus, so he could have regained
> > human shape to hide it later. (Someone suggested a little while ago that
> one
> > of the reasons he chose to hide in Hagrid's hut was that that was the
> place
> > he had hidden Voldemort's wand.)
> 
> So theoretically you could have one wand behind your back, one in your
> pocket, drop the one while you cut off your finger and turn into a rat and
> still have the one in your pocket.  Interesting.  Definitely handy to have
> two wands there.  However, Wormtail didnt' have it on him in the shrieking
> shack did he?  Or else he'd have done something?  Or acted like he was 
> going
> to?  As for it being hidden in Hagrid's hut, that's interesting.  Hagrid is
> always right handy to blame for such things.  Very likely.
> 

Aah, now....funnily enough you've hit on exactly what started the 'Cornelius 
Fudge is Ever-So-Evil' thread.

No, Wormtail *didn't* have a wand on him and that, IMHO is extremely 
suspicious.
If he did rescue Voldemort's, then he must have hidden it.
But why doesn't he have his own? Would you really, in those circumstances, 
risk not taking your wand with you? (I see no reason why you shouldn't have 
*two* wands transform along with you.)

I theorised that Wormtail was in league with someone at the MOM. He *did* 
leave his wand at the scene, but it was substituted for Sirius', so that in 
the official report, it was assumed destroyed along with Pettigrew.
Thus there was cast-iron proof that Sirius was guilty, for he was in 
possession of the guilty wand. Sirius' own wand was diposed of.

You see, there's yet another wand problem: if Sirius' wand existed, it could 
have been PI'd to demonstrate his innocence. Sirius doesn't *ever* seem to 
have tried to prove himself innocent. OK, at first he was racked with guilt, 
but later, we hear that he survives in Azkaban because of his unhappy 
thoughts about his innocence. 
I speculated that his unhappy acceptance of his situation was because he knew 
he'd been framed and that there was nothing he could do about it.

I won't expand further here; I originally wrote it up in greater detail 
somewhere in the middle of message no 35393.

Eloise


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