Harry Can Hold Both A Wand And Another Object (WAS: Harry's wands)

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 43898

Richelle Votaw wrote:

> Okay, let me stop and evaulate here.  Harry is clutching Cedric's
> wrist in one hand.  In the other hand he has his wand, which he
> points at the cup.  Then he grabs the cup.  In which hand?  I'm
> assuming the one with the wand.  You know, kind of grabs it with
> three fingers, still holding the wand with two?  I don't see how 
> he'd have had time to get the wand back in his robes and then 
> getting his hand up in time to grab the cup.  

Now me:

In the Quidditch match against Ravenclaw in PoA, Harry "stretched out 
the hand *still grasping his wand* and just managed to close his 
fingers over the small, struggling Snitch" (Ch. 13, UK ed., p. 194, 
my emphasis).  So before the graveyard scene, we have canon to 
support that Harry can catch an object in the same hand that is still 
holding his wand.  Although I acknowledge that a Snitch is a lot 
smaller than the Triwizard Cup, but Harry only had to grab the handle 
of the Cup before the portkey took over and did the rest.

~Phyllis