What Pettigrew did at Godric's Hollow - new info from JKR chat

[carolynwhite2]

No: HPFGUIDX 111473

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 

> Pippin:
> 
> Interesting that the rebounding spell destroyed Voldemort's body 
> but not his clothes or wand. Of course, it could have blown them 
> right off (sorry for the image <veg>)
> 

Carolyn (more <veg>):
As DD said to Voldie at the MoM: 'your failure to understand that 
there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest 
weakness'... (Sevvie could have told him, judging by his worst 
memory). Does DE really stand for 'dead embarrassed', I wonder..

In a weak attempt to fend off the Elves and drag this back to a canon 
point, we don't know the rebounded AK destroyed his body. In the GOF 
graveyard scene, all he says is 'I was ripped from my body' and all 
she has said here is that Pettigrew hid the robes and wand. Perhaps 
Pettigrew stripped the body and then tried to blow up the house and 
all the bodies, in an attempt to hide what had happened.

Carolyn