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

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 91680

Pippin theorized:

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.

<snips>
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?

Lounging on the grassy knoll, Eustace_Scrubb offered:

Actually, I'd have to say that Wormtail performs pretty well under
pressure.  He managed to kill all those muggles, frame Sirius for the
killings and excise his own finger when he was cornered and then
transform himself into a rat.  Despite Voldemort's disdain, he did
manage to capture Bertha Jorkins.  (In fact, our opinion of Wormtail's
intelligence and magical skills are primarily derived from sources of
questionable value--the three fellow Marauders who treated him badly
back in school and Voldemort, who delights in belittling him even as 
Wormtail performs the excruciating task of rebirthing Voldemort.)  
I've got no problem imagining him supporting Voldebabe primarily on
one arm, with the wand already in the other arm...in fact, I can't
imagine that Wormtail and LV would approach Harry Potter without a
wand out to start with.  Cedric had no time to react because Wormtail
was already armed with LV's wand.  

Pippin again:

And look at the wand echoes

Eustace_Scrubb again:

Well, the whole wand echo scene has been a problem since the first
printings allowed James' ghost to precede Lily's.  JKR fixed that, but
if she and the editors missed something that big, I wonder what other
details were also neglected or simply not considered important.

Then again, did Wormtail exclusively use LV's wand that night or did
he have one of his own?  We don't know how or when the wand got into
the robe pocket, do we (and of course that could help your case)?  But
we do know that the robes were within Harry's field of vision the
whole time he was tied to the gravestone.    He paid close attention
to them at first, as his dread of their contents rose.  Once Wormtail
removed the contents and placed the entity in the cauldron, Harry was
less concerned with the robes, but the only time they would have been
obscured would have been for the few moments that the steam from the
cauldron filled the air.  A most stealthy second wandsman it would
have been to return the wand to the robe pocket without Harry
noticing. I'm guessing (no proof, mind you) that Pettigrew put it in
as he was preparing to enrobe the risen Voldemort.

I still think Occam would blame Pettigrew.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb