Voldemort's Wand (one very small spoiler, clearly marked)

[Grey Wolf]

No: HPFGUIDX 65956

"flurykick" wrote:
> My question is where did Voldemort get his wand?  In the graveyard 
> scene in GoF, there's a visual history of the wand's spells when it 
> connects with it's brother wand in Harry's hand. It is the same wand 
> used to kill the Potters and it is next used to kill Bertha Jorkins.  
> So, how did it get from Godric's Hollow to Albania?
> Voldemort could not have carried it out of the wreckage of the 
> Potter's house.  He did not have a body after his curse backfired.  
> Was someone with him when Voldemort went to the Potter's house? Did 
> they pick it up and leave a one year old alive in the ruins?
> Where was the wand for 13 years while Voldemort languished in some 
> forgotten forest?  
> How did it get to Albania?  
> I would assume it came with Wormtail because it was used on Bertha 
> Jorkins just after Wormtail returned to his master.  
> So if it was Wormtail, how did he get it?  Was he the one who went to 
> the Potter's house that Halloween night?  And if it was Wormtail, 
> where did he keep the darn thing for the thirteen years he was 
> concealed as Scabbers? 
> I apologize if this has been discussed previously. But I look forward 
> to your thoughts on this.  Is it just a mistake or will we find in 
> future books that Wormtail is even more loathsome than we thought? 
> 
> 
> "flurykick"

The Grey Wolf puts on his "FAQ" badge and says:
Hello, flurykick, welcome to the list. As you imagined, the question 
*has* come up before. It was quite some time back (and a great deal of 
posts), so chances of finding something through yahoomort are close to 
nil. So let me give you a run down of what I remember to be the most 
popular theories:

· The generic DE: Voldemort didn't go alone to the Potters house - some 
DE went along to observe and hold his master's cape or something, and 
when everything went to pot he had the presence of mind to rescue the 
wand and keep it. Voldemort/Peter would've asked it back at the time of 
the Berta Jorkins interrogatory/torture. A top contender for this DE is 
Malfoy, due to his collecting habits. I find this theory unlikely, 
myself.

· Peter: As above, but Peter was there because he had to reveal the 
Secret Keeper. Keeps back beacuse he's a coward and cannot face the 
people he just sold to Voldemort. When everything goes wrong, he comes 
up with the "simulated death" plan, which requires him to leave his 
wand behind, so he takes Voldemort's wand with him to have a spare one.
Peter would've kept the wand hidden (in his underwear, for example) for 
13 years until he finds Voldemort. Cons: recent canon (SPOILER ALERT 
--> skip to next point) tells us that Peter's presence probably wasn't 
necessary, he only had to write the place in a parchment, so he had no 
reason to be there (particularly if he felt guilty and prefered not to 
be involved further).

· Hagrid: He is the first to arrive to the crime scene, canonically. He 
looks in the rubble for Harry. He is not allowed his own wand, and his 
old one has been snapped in two - and yet he enjoys using magic as much 
as the next guy. Voldemort was close enough to the baby that his wand 
must have been close by (and since the house exploded outwards, Harry 
and the wand were probably more or less in the centre of the 
devastation, lying in the open). According to this theory, Hagrid picks 
up that wand (can't let it to go to waste, a perfectly good wand), and 
hides it in his cabin for the next years - maybe inside his umbrella 
(many have pointed out that a broken wand cannot possibly work as well 
as that umbrella does). Peter spends several months in Hagrid's hut, 
hidding from Black, so he has ample time to find it and hide it. From 
then on, it proceeds as above -> Peter hides it until he finds 
Voldemort.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf, who advices that there might be more theories he has 
forgotten about.