(TBAY) The Biggest of the Hedgehogs (WAS Pettigrew, Hagrid, and Voldemort's

[erniemu03]

No: HPFGUIDX 40463

I'm a newbie, and I've been lurking for a little while.  I have to 
admit, I love some of these ever-so-delicious theories and 
interpretations.  Hagrid and Pettigrew as co-conspirators of a sort 
is intriguing...

I only see one problem with the theory that Hagrid has been using 
Voldemort's wand all those (these??) years.  

Elkins posted:

> >What if Peter *was* hanging around Hagrid's hut in the hopes of 
> >retrieving voldemort's wand -- not from the Centaurs, but from 
> >Hagrid himself? 

and Cindy agreed that not only could Hagrid have picked up 
Voldemort's wand on the long ago day when he retrieved Harry for 
Voldemort, but it was this wand he had hidden inside his infamous 
pink umbrella.

While I can immediately latch on to the idea that Hagrid had 
*someone's* whole and unbroken wand in his umbrella, I have trouble 
believing it is Voldemort's for one reason.  Voldemort gets his wand 
back and uses it near the end of GoF.  When he uses it against 
Harry's wand, we have the interesting scene with the Priori 
Incantatem.  The spells that reappear are Voldemort's, from before 
his "fall" and after.  There is no indication that any spells Hagrid 
would have used that wand for also made a reappearance.

I tried to overcome this difficulty by rationalizing that maybe only 
spells performed by the hand holding the wand reappeared during a 
Priori Incantatem, but Amos Diggory proves that wrong at the start of 
GoF when he performs the spell on Harry's wand himself.

All I can discern from this, then, is that Hagrid may have had 
a "full" wand in his pink umbrella at some time and he may prove to 
be evil in the future, but I really do not think that he could have 
been using Voldemort's wand.

-Erin (holding her breath as she sends her first-ever post)