Wormtail's Wand

[Devika]

No: HPFGUIDX 54827

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "plaidmouse" <PlaidMouse at k...> 
wrote:
>  <snip>
> 
> When animagi transform, their wands and robes transform with them.
> Like when Sirius transforms into a dog, his robes and 
wand "disappear"
> and don't reappear until he transforms back into a human. 


We don't know that wizards' wands transform with them when they turn 
into their animal forms.  It's unlikely that Sirius has a wand at 
all, having been in Azkaban for 12 years.  IIRC, when he tells HRH 
about how he escaped from Azkaban, he says something about having no 
hope of driving away the dementors without a wand.  So unless he 
picked one up somewhere after his escape, he doesn't have a wand at 
the moment.  If he does have one, he would have to have acquired it 
after the Shrieking Shack scene, since he didn't have one then.  

The same principle holds for Peter.  When Peter is with Voldemort in 
GoF, he uses Voldemort's wand, not his own.  In PoA, Peter doesn't 
seem to have a wand either.  IIRC, he uses Lupin's wand, not his own, 
to attack Ron and Crookshanks after Lupin transforms.  

I thought there was a JKR interview somewhere in which she said that 
Peter left his wand behind when he transformed into a rat in his 
confrontation with Sirius.  I could be wrong about this, though, 
since I have no idea which interview it's from.  If anyone knows 
about it, could you let me know?

Anyway, my point is that we don't actually know whether or not 
wizards can take their wands with them when they transform, and I 
have a feeling that they can't.

Devika