Cedric and Pettigrew (was Re: Faking Sirius' Death?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 91654

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> 
> Nope, I'm suggesting that Peter didn't kill Cedric. In any case 
> Cedric couldn't have recognized him. Peter was hooded and 
> Harry himself didn't recognize him until later. I'm suggesting that 
> someone else was in the graveyard.
> 
>(snip)
> Harry hears the words, "Kill the spare" from directly overhead, 
> meaning Wormtail is still holding Voldebabe.  Next, Harry hears 
> the swishing noise and a voice screeches Avada Kedavra to the 
> night. So do we imagine that fumble-fingered Wormtail managed 
> to swish a  wand out of his pocket before putting Voldebabe 
> down, or that he put him down and took out the wand,  all while 
> Cedric was politely standing there waiting to be murdered?
> 
> Not every spell leaves an echo. But conjuring does.  What 
> happened to the echo of the conjured ropes?
> 
> Did Peter conjure the ropes wandlessly, as Quirrell did in Book 
> One? If he could do that, why didn't he do it in the Shrieking 
> Shack, and escape from Sirius and Lupin? Did Peter use 
> Voldemort's wand to kill Cedric, then immediately switch to 
> another ? Bertha's? Or did Peter never have Voldemort's wand at 
> all?
> 
> Occam's razor suggests he wasn't alone.
> 
> Lupin with Voldemort's wand in the Graveyard

Ah! Nice idea!
I don't agree with you about Lupin of course. Would you expect me to?

I do like the idea of someone else in the graveyard though.
Now who do we know who wasn't at the TWT, didn't have their own wand
and would be instantly recognisable to all  in the WW?

Who else but Sirius.
He was responsible for the cock-up at Godrics Hollow.
He escapes from Azkaban (only possible with the connivence of Fudge
and/or the Dementors).
He led the Dementors to Harry in PoA.
He ingratiates himself into Harry's affections.
He goes into hiding, no-one knows where. (The Riddle House?  Can you 
think of anywhere safer?)
He is protected by Voldy and carries Voldys wand. 
After Voldy is transformed he goes to Hogwarts, he doesn't see the duel.
Ater Harry returns from the graveyard it is he that is reluctant for Harry
to  be questioned. It is he that seems perturbed that Cedric had been
brought back to life by the Priori Incantatum effect, concerned that
Cedric might say too much.
It is he that reacts when Harry tells of seeing the shades of his parents.
Sirius isn't  named Black for nothing.

Lupin is the one that tries to make amends.
He zaps Sirius through the veil.

Kneasy