Graveyard scene

[Anne]

No: HPFGUIDX 54499

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> 
wrote:
 > 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?

ME:
I thought Pettigrew cut his hand off at the graveyard in GOF -- 
wasn't "hand of the servant" part of the "potion" for the incantation 
that brought Voldemort's body back?

I am pretty sure (don't have my POA here, it's at home) that Sirius 
explained in the Shrieking Shack that Pettigrew cut off his own 
finger out in the street when he killed the dozen Muggles, then 
transfigured into a rat so he could escape -- leaving his finger and 
his wand behind as proof of his "death".

Anne U
("I let you sleep in my BED all those years!" - disgusted Ron, POA)