Avery, Voldemort's Wand, Timeline (WAS Avery and Ambushes)

[abigailnus]

No: HPFGUIDX 35366

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "mariahisabel" <Cornet83 at a...> wrote:
> 
> in a previous post, I wrote
> 
> > > old Peter keeps the wand, either as a way to try and show 
> voldemort 
> > > his loyalty later on ("but my Lord, I kept your wand faithfully 
> > while 
> > > awaiting your return") or for some other reason.  Of course then 
> > > Peter has no problem of delivering the wand to V. and V. still 
> has 
> > > his old wand.
> 
> "tanie_05 wrote in reply
> 
> > Now here's where you messed up. You must remember that Peter 
> > transformed himself into a rat the day after the Potters were 
> killed 
> > when Sirius went to confront him. He couldn't have possibly kept 
> it. 
> > If it was that, then why didn't he have his own? Now a possibilty 
> is 
> > that Peter hid it in some unknown place, maybe hoping Voldemort 
> would 
> > rise again. I'd probably buy that though. Oh well. Maybe we'll 
> never 
> > know.
> 
> However how do we know that wizards with the ability to become 
> animagi are not able to keep their belongings with them when they 
> morph into animal form?   Assuming that this is 
> correct, why isnt is possible for Peter to hold onto Voldemorts wand?

Because if he had (and the fact that he and other Animagi transform with their clothes suggests that 
this is not impossible), then he would have been able to attack Sirius and Lupin in the Shreaking Shack 
when they forced him to transform into a human.  Even if he was too frightened to attack two armed 
wizards (and I'm not certain, but wasn't only Lupin armed at this point?) there should at some point 
have been an attempt to disarm him as leaving a hostile wizard armed is a very stupid thing to do 
(note that the very first thing Lupin does upon entering the SS is to disarm HRH, and he thinks they're 
on his side).  

Plus, if Peter had a wand on him, his best bet the moment it became obvious that Sirius was going to 
expose him and that Lupin was starting to believe Sirius was to transform on his own while everyone 
was shouting at everybody else and use the element of surprise to catch whoever was armed at that 
point off guard.  He could then kill everyone, making it look like Black or Lupin's fault, and either 
transform back into a rat or run off never to be seen again.  The fact that Peter simply waits for Black 
and Lupin to transform him back into a human suggests that he has no other alternative course of 
action (other than to run away which he tries desperately to do.)

Abigail