Speaking of wands...

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 82788

Iggy here...

Please forgive if this has already been covered, but a thought just occurred
to me:  Everybody has been talking about how Sirius got his wand back in
PoA... I think a more important question would be how did Voldemort get HIS
wand back for GoF?  (Otherwise, the events of the duel wouldn't have
happened as they did...)

On the night he tried to kill Harry, the AK spell backlashed onto him and
killed his physical body.  As he even described it, he was having enough
trouble keeping himself together as a spirit.  In which case, I don't think
he'd be able to recover his own wand.  So it would have been left on his old
body.

If a Death Eater had been there with him, they would have tried to kill
Harry as well, and done it a different way... which probably would have
succeeded.  And if they didn't, they would have thought LV dead, so why
recover the wand?  (Unless it was as a souvenir... but then, there's no
indication of a DE being there at all.)

Hagrid or Sirius would have destroyed the wand somehow... and even if they
didn't break it and kept it for some reason, they would have no reason to
give it back to him.  (Unless one of them was the spy.  so unlikely as to be
almost absurd...)

A Muggle who arrived on the scene would have either kept it as a novelty, or
ignored it... not understanding what it was.

Also, IIRC, wasn't the house deliberately destroyed?  The wand would have
gone up with the house unless it had been saved first.

The only person I could think of that MIGHT have been on the scene with
Voldemort would have been Peter... but if he saw Voldemort bite the big one,
why would he bother to save the wand either?  He wouldn't have thought that
his boss was coming back at all.


Comments?

Iggy McSnurd
the Prankster


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