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

[Alex]

No: HPFGUIDX 54777

Patricia Bullington-McGuire:
> I'm still waiting for some evidence that there is any sort of negative 
> effect from using another wizard's wand. I'm kind of wondering if 
> that was just a line JKR threw in without really thinking about 
> the consequences.  

Indeed, which leads to another weakness on the following idea:

> > And it still leaves me wondering who's wand he used when he 
> > was "guarding" Crouch Sr. and subduing the real Moody.
> 
> Possibly he was using Crouch Jr.'s wand.  IIRC, the younger Crouch was
> freed before Moody was subdued.  Crouch Jr. could even have done all the
> nasty magic to Moody himself.  Then, when he took Moody's place at
> Hogwarts he presumably would have used Moody's wand instead of his 
> own lest someone notice the difference.

I'm sure Crouch-as-Moody was using Moody's wand, but if Pettigrew's using 
Crouch or Crouch Jr's wand for day-to-day stuff, why isn't he using it in the 
graveyard scene to kill Cedric?

Patricia Bullington-McGuire:
> The only prior spells we see during the Priori Incantatem effect are Avada
> Kedavras.  I don't think this necessarily means, though, that those are
> the only spells cast by Voldemort's wand.  After all, what would an
> Imperius Curse or a Memory Charm look like?  It may be that very few
> spells have an obvious visual representation (in the case of AK, the echo
> of the person killed), but that the other spells are also released in some
> sort of non-visual form.  A trained auror might be able to distinguish
> them, but not Harry.

But we do also see the silver hand that Voldemort creates for Pettigrew. I 
agree that Harry's POV might not have picked up more subtle use of magic, 
and there could be other spells that were just glossed over, but it still goes 
back to the problems I pointed out in my original post (54751) on this thread.

~~aesob, devil's advocate ;-)