Graveyard scene

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 54487

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
>  Annemehr:
> 
> Still, none of this negates my point that it is not likely Peter 
would 
> have abandoned his wand at the scene if he could have kept it.
> 
> Annemehr
> resolving to be more careful in future and not rely on remembered 
> quotes such as "...the biggest bit they found of [Pettigrew] was 
his 
> finger" and assume that that was *all* they found...

Wizards *would* think he'd not abandon his wand, Pettigrew knows 
this. It's not the *finger* showing he's dead, it's his *wand*. 
Wizard authorities believed Pettigrew dead *because* 'no wizard would 
ever leave his wand behind' - which is why he did it. Two things 
would prove wizard dead to a wizard: dead body or a wand left behind.

A lost finger simply isn't enough to prove that someone's dead. As to 
how he lost it - he has cut his *hand* off! Finger is small thing 
compared to that. Perhaps, on the day he decided to betray his 
friends, he cut that finger off (possibly planted it back by magic, 
but so he could leave it behind at will) - as one part of him that 
was loyal?

Bloody clothes: A fake. He did leave something that looked like blood 
to pretend he had been eaten by Crookshanks... where did he get that 
in short notice? Same place he got the blood on the clothes he left 
behind, I presume...

What ever else, Pettigrew is a master in pretending death in order to 
survive. If he ever decides to leave Voldemort, he'd have to cut off 
the hand Voldemort created...

-- Finwitch