Hagrid and Voldemort/Where was Voldy's wand?

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49760

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kelly L. <kethlenda at y...>"
<kethlenda at y...> wrote:
> 
> Kelly L. again:
> 
> Thing is, I think Voldemort already has his wand back.  
> Otherwise, the wand he used in the graveyard would not have 
> locked up with Harry's in the way that it did.  He must have had 
> his old wand, his Fawkes-feather wand, by then.
> 
> What I think is that Hagrid had it up until the end of PoA.  
> Pettigrew had three years to figure this out--he saw it lying 
> around, perhaps, on one of Ron's many visits to Hagrid's hut.  
> When he pretended to have been eaten by Crookshanks, he 
> went to Hagrid's hut to look for the wand.  That's why he was 
> found there just before all the trouble broke out.  He wasn't able 
> to steal the wand then, because H/R/H found him.
> 
> When he escaped next, after he had been revealed by Lupin and 
> Sirius, he went *back* to Hagrid's hut, got away with stealing the 
> wand this time, and returned it to Lord Voldemort.
> 
> Or at least that's what I think happened, IMHO.  :)
> 
> Kelly L.

bboy_mn:
1.) Who's got the wand? 
As you pointed out Voldemort has it. Their common wands was the whole
foundation of the duel in the graceyard. So we know he has it now. The
question is when and where did he get it?

2.) Why was Wormtail at Hagrid's? 
Like all good rats, he went to a place that was easy to get into and
had lots for food laying around. I suspect this is not the first time
Hagrid has had rats. But more important, Wormtail helped write The
Map, and the map doesn't show the interior of Hagrid's cabin.
Harry/Ron/Hermione aren't seen on the Map until they step outside of
Hagrid's hut. So he knew he was safe from detection as long as he was
in the cabin.

3.) Could Hagrid have had the wand?
Yes, he could have recovered it from 'the scene of the crime' and
stored it. Maybe Wormtail saw Hargrid take it from Potter's house,
maybe he saw it while he visited Hagrid with Ron. Either way, we can
assume when Rat!Peter was in the hut, the wand could have been there
too. So, seeking the shelter of the hut, and seeking shelter from the
Map, Peter hides in Hargid's. Hagrids is out, Rat!Peter takes the wand
and hids it near the edge of the forest. 

Peter is captured. Peter escapes. Peter runs to the FOREST, transforms
back to human, grabs the wand, transforms back to a rat, and he's off
and running wand and all.

I'm not saying I believe it, but it is a reasonable sequence of events.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn