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

[Alex]

No: HPFGUIDX 54766

aesob: 
> > 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.

karmakaze:
> You see, I took reason (1) from your postscript to explain why there
> were so few events after Lily & James's murders "recorded" on the
> wand.  It seems that using someone else's wand is suboptimal, and
> probably not the sort of thing you would do without permission (like 
> borrowing someone's toothbrush).  
>
> Since Voldemort, lacking a body, could not use the wand, it just
> didn't see much use.

But isn't it odd that Wormtail can use it to kill Cedric? I would think that spell 
would be pretty difficult and need some power behind it, but Wormtail uses it 
to kill Cedric, the gardener and Bertha Jorkins. Maybe Pettigrew's a much 
more powerful wizard than we suspect if he can use a suboptimal wand to kill 
three people.

And it still leaves me wondering who's wand he used when he was "guarding" 
Crouch Sr. and subduing the real Moody.

~~aesob