[HPforGrownups] Re: Graveyard scene

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 54497

 
 
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From: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
Date: 28 March 2003 11:54:01
To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Graveyard scene
 
--- 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...
 
Finwitch then argued -

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.

Now me -

But they believed that Sirius caused such a large explosion that all that
survived was Peter's finger. They would have just assumed his wand was
vaporised as well. they had witnesses to prove that Sirius blew him up and
Sirius wasn't saying anything different - and even if he had been they
probably wouldn't have believed him. No I can't see any reason why he wouldn
t keep his wand. However since Voldemort had been weakened so much by Harry
I am amazed he stayed in the country. He was supposedly dead so no one would
have been looking for him, he could have hopped on a boat (as a rat) to
somewhere like Australia and then lived as a muggle a lot more comfortably
than living as a rat. Despite what he said to Sirius and remus in the Shack
about only acting out of fear he obviously has some level of committment to
the 'cause' or he wouldn't still be hanging around Hogwarts as a rat so many
years later.

K