Unsealing the Chamber (Was Ponderables...)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86046


> <justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> > <snip>
> , I still haven't
> > read any wholly convincing explanations of how Voldemort got his 
> wand
> > back.)
> > 
> > Carol
> 
> Maybe if Snape really was at Godric's Hollow the night the Potters 
> were murdered then he returned the wand to Voldie in GOF.  
> 
> Diana

Snape? He had already left the DEs by that time and was spying for
Dumbledore. If anything, he tried to warn James, not help to kill him.
Peter Pettigrew, who betrayed James and Lily, might well have been
present, but he murdered thirteen people with his own wand, which is
also unaccounted for. He could hardly have hidden one wand, much less
two, in his scanty rat fur while he posed as a rat for twelve years. I
assume that his own wand was lost or destroyed when he left the murder
scene, but where was Voldemort's wand? Surely Dumbledore and the rest
of the Order searched Godric's Hollow, but if they found it, it would
have been in Dumbledore's possession. Lucius might have found it once
the Fidelius charm had been broken, assuming that Voldemort confided
in him before the fact, but I don't buy the Riddle House theory.
Neither Lucius nor anyone else could have gotten inside to search the
house with old Frank on the alert. Lucius could have been with
Voldemort when he killed the Potters and could have kept the wand in
his basement hiding  place. The problem is that it was PP who
evidently returned the wand to Voldemort.

Carol, who is giving up any attempt to solve the riddle tonight and
hoping this message doesn't post twice