[HPforGrownups] Just wondering...

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 60874

Michael wrote:

> Who actually kills Cedric? Voldemort says, "Kill the spare." It would 
> appear then that Wormtail is the one that did it. But then he would 
> have had to use Voldemort's wand because in the Priori Incantatem, 
> Cedric comes out of Voldemort's wand. Does this mean that Wormtail 
> doesn't have a wand of his own? 

Voldemort gives the order, but Wormtail does the killing.  With Voldemort's wand.  Wormtail left his wand back with his finger when Sirius was framed.  

> Also, Moody (Crouch incognito) says that only a very powerful wizard 
> can perform the killing curse, and Wormtail does not strike me as a 
> particularly powerful wizard. 

That's something I've been pondering for quite some time now. I wonder if it is possible that when they were doing magic to give Voldemort a temporary body that he shared a bit of his power with Wormtail?  Only for his own good, of course.

> One more thing, how exactly did Voldemort get his wand back. When he 
> lost his powers he was a spirit-like entity, so I would assume he 
> couldn't have carried a wand. So where did it come from? Perhasps the 
> young Crouch came that night and got the wand and then returned it 
> when Wormtail and Voldemort showed up at his house thirteen years 
> later. 

That is a real mystery.  Either someone else was with Voldemort and picked up the wand after he was ripped from his body by the curse that failed, or Hagrid or Sirius or somebody picked it up, put it someplace for safe keeping which I doubt, because if I'd have found it I'd have crushed it into a million pieces.  Which may not have been a very good idea, because then he would've used some other wand on Harry and it wouldn've clashed and so on.

Richelle


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