Voldemort's wand (was Re: Wormtail's Wand)

[Alex]

No: HPFGUIDX 54751

imamommy said:
> Peter might have had *another* wand, perhaps Voldemort's 
since he was already defeated...<snip>
> if V's wand winds up back with it's owner in GoF, where has it 
been hidden, and who took the trouble to hide it after V was 
defeated?

It seems to me that Voldemort's wand was out of commission 
for quite some time because the priori incantatem seems to 
show only a few _recent_ events, going back as far as Bertha 
Jorkins (I believe, not having GoF in front of me), then jumps way 
back in time to to Lily & James' demise. It certainly is a troubling 
issue, from a plot and timeline standpoint...

Where was Voldemort's wand? Perhaps when Voldemort was 
vanquished, the wand went to some special place (if he'd 
meddled with immortality, why not multidementional wand 
teleportation in case of trouble?) OR perhaps it was retreived by 
someone else who was at the Potter house that night--perhaps 
Wormtail, as he was the secret keeper--and he had hidden it 
before the face-off with Sirius and retreived it only when he went 
to search for his master. OR perhaps it was retrieved during the 
investigation after the incident, but was found by a DE (or stolen 
by one) and put in a special place for Voldemort's return. 

All three of these ideas have possibilities, but none works 
perfectly (I won't bother poking holes in my own theories as 
they're fairly obvious). Perhaps JKR has a valid explanation for 
how the wand came back to Voldemort when he didn't have it 
before, but (pardon me as I bash her plotlines, though) I think the 
main reason for the wand's sudden unexplained appearance is 
that JKR created the priori incantatem plot concept for GoF (even 
thought the seed was planted as early as book 1, I don't think the 
details were thought through until she wrote book 4), and...she 
suddenly realized she needed to get Voldemort's wand back in 
his hand for battle with Harry. 

Maybe it really doesn't matter where it was. JKR puts it in 
Wormtail & Voldemort's posession when they need it. But this 
brings up another problem...if that was the only wand that 
Wormtail had access to, well...wizards seem to rely on their 
wands for a lot of things on a _daily_ basis, but it seems that 
only a few spells come out of Voldemort's wand before the Lily & 
James appear, so if this was the only wand that Wormtail and 
Voldemort had during the _entire_ schoolyear, wouldn't more 
spells have come from it? Especially if Wormtail had been using 
Voldemort's wand to subdue Moody and Crouch Sr? Maybe 
Wormtail did have another wand, but wasn't using it during the 
ceremony that brings Voldemort's body back?

Well, I can't make sense out of it. Perhaps someone else can...

P.S., I think that the only reasons that Cedric is killed by Wormtail 
with Voldemort's wand are (1) because Voldemort doesn't have 
the capability to use his wand yet, so (2) Wormtail has to do it, 
because (3) Cedric needs to be present during priori incantatem 
to (4) communcate to Harry to take his body back and to (5) give 
Harry some closure with Cedric's death.

But...again, maybe I'm way off base...

~~aesob, who really does love the books, and JKR, and her 
plotlines, even though they don't seem to be perfectly thought  
through...