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

[Alex]

No: HPFGUIDX 54771

aesob:
> > 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.

Finwitch:
> Well, I'd think that Wormtail hid it! Hagrid and Sirius were busy 
> grieving about James and Lily and arguing about who takes Harry, so 
> they didn't *notice* a little rat going away with a wand for a while. 
> However, Sirius probably *did* notice him after a while, so he gave 
> up Harry and the motorcycle to Hagrid and went after him.
> 
> Pettigrew then yells loudly, speaking as if Sirius had killed James 
> and Lily, casts that explosion spell (With his wand behing his back)
> He cuts off his finger with the *same* spell, then does the rat-
> summoning spell, transforms and runs into the sewer.
> His concentration not at it's best, he only transforms with what he 
> had under his robe (where he kept Voldemort's wand)
> 
> He probably hid Voldemort's wand into the sewer, just in case he was 
> caught. He hears them arrest Sirius safely in the sewer while he 
> wonders how to get rest, food etc... Since Muggle's were involved, 
> Arthur Weasley might have come there in business... Probably he found 
> a little rat and decided it would be a nice pet for Percy...

Great theory, and it's probably what JKR has in mind, but I still see some 
holes with Voldemort's wand being part of the escape. If Pettigrew was there, 
why does he (as man or as rat) hang around at Godric's Hollow after it blows 
up? Wouldn't this require some searching, and wouldn't he more likely run as 
Sirius would know he had betrayed them? Pettigrew seems to be the biggest 
chicken and I think he'd do anything to get out of there if he saw Sirius 
coming.

Perhaps he was looking to see if Voldemort had survived the explosion at the 
house, but if he can find Voldemort's wand (a stick of wood in an exploded 
house--probably like finding a needle in a haystack), wouldn't have also 
heard or found baby Harry and wouldn't he want to finish him off and do the 
task that his master had come there to do?

~~aesob