Diggory's character and a question

[cantoramy]

No: HPFGUIDX 57524

In PoA, when Harry awakes to find himself in the infirmary after the 
Dementors appear at the Quidditch match and he passes out while on 
his broom, and he realizes that Gryffindor has lost the game,

"Diggory got the Snitch," said George.  "just after you fell.  He 
didn't realize what had happened.  When he looked back and saw you 
on the ground, he tried to call it off.  Wanted a rematch..." (UK 
hardcover, p. 135)

JKR does it to us again.  She sets up a character or a situation 
without our knowing!  Yes, Diggory is handsome and popular with the 
girls, but he behaves in a way we used to call "fair and square".  
(Do kids still say that?)  That is why he hesitates at the end of 
GoF to grab the Cup; he thinks that Harry should take it.  Oh well, 
no good deed goes unpunished.

Now the question.  At the end of GoF, after Harry grabs Diggory's 
body and summons the Cup *with his wand* [emphasis mine], he grabs 
the Cup by the handle.  Now he has one hand on the Cup and the other 
on Diggory's body.  When does he have time to put away his wand?  We 
are told he wants to reach for it right before Crouch, Jr. is about 
to curse him and Dumbledore and Co. rescue him:

"Moody's normal eye was bulging, the magical eye fixed upon Harry.  
The door was barred, and Harry knew he would never reach his own 
wand in time..."(UK hardcover, p. 589)

Conundrums, conundrums!

cantoramy,

delurking after a long time and who agrees with whoever wrote there 
should be more editors of the books so all the Flints could be 
caught before printing (and all the grammar corrected!)