Pettigrew's Wandlessness (WAS: Graveyard scene)

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 54441

Kathryn Cawte wrote:

> So why is Peter casting the spell with Voldemort's wand? I don't 
> remember whether they said if his wand was found along with his
> remains after his presumed death but I would assume somewhere in 
> Knockturn Alley or somewhere similar there is somewhere he could 
> get a wand on the black market...

and Finwitch responded:

> But, dead people don't go shopping. In order to pretend his "death" 
> Pettigrew would have had to leave his wand behind. He's using 
> Voldemort's wand because he doesn't have one of his own and because 
> he's acting on Voldemort's order. 

Now me:

In Ch. 10, PoA, Fudge says:  "And Black standing there laughing, with 
what was left of Pettigrew in front of him...a heap of blood-stained 
robes and a few - a few fragments - ". In Ch. 19 of PoA, Sirius 
says: "...he [Pettigrew] blew apart the street with the wand behind 
his back, killed everyone within twenty feet of himself - and sped 
down into the sewer with the other rats..." and Lupin says: "The 
biggest bit of Peter they found was his finger."  There's no mention 
of what happened to Pettigrew's wand after he faked his death.  When 
Scabbers is forced to reveal himself as Pettigrew, there is no 
mention of him possessing a wand.  Moreover, Pettigrew grabs Lupin's 
wand when Lupin turns into a werewolf, and he uses it to stun Ron - 
presumably, if Pettigrew had his own wand, he wouldn't have needed to 
take Lupin's.

These references lead me to believe that Pettigrew did not take his 
wand with him when he "sped into the sewer" as a rat after accusing 
Sirius of betraying the Potters.  And I agree with Finwitch that it 
would be difficult for him to purchase a new wand without blowing his 
cover (also, wands are fairly expensive, and it's unclear whether he 
had any money with him).  And once he connected with Voldemort, it 
was in Voldemort's interest to keep him wandless in order to keep 
Pettigrew firmly under his control.

~Phyllis