Lost wands and Sirius's motorcycle

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 89247

Sue wrote:
This wand "problem" has always bothered me as well.  What happened to 
Peter's wand?  I suppose he could have carried it into the sewer with 
his teeth, hidden it and then returned to get it later.  But where 
did he keep it for 12 years?  <snip>
> 
> Honey wrote:
> 
> I expect the question of what happens to the things in his pockets
> when an animagus transforms has been discussed, so I apologize for
> bringing it around again. I might guess that it works the same as the
> werewolf transformation. In POA, Lupin puts Harry's Invisibility Cloak
> into his pocket in the Shrieking Shack, and then transforms. He then
> gives it to Harry the next day. The pocket contents appear to return
> with the human form, along with the clothing. Scabbers was apparently
> carrying a wand for all those years.
<snip>

Carol:
That's what I thought until I reread the conversation in which
McGonagall, Flitwick, Hagrid, Fudge, and Madam Rosmerta discuss the
supposed murder of Peter Pettigrew. According to Fudge, Peter left "a
heap of bloodstained robes" (PoA 208, Am. ed.)in the street along with
his finger and a few other tiny bits of himself (maybe pieces of his
ear since one of Scabbers's ears looks chewed up). It doesn't look as
if he had any pocket to put the wand in. And where did he get the
clothes he's wearing when he reemerges as a man near the end of PoA?

The confrontation scene in PoA also seems to refute the theory.
Sirius, whose wand was taken from him in Azkaban, at first uses Ron's
wand (339) and later he uses Snape's, which he retrieves from the bed
after Snape is knocked out (366). (The reference to "his own wand" on
p. 376 seems to mean the wand Sirius was using as distinct from
Lupin's, which has just been mentioned.) Peter is also wandless in
this scene; he seizes the wand that Lupin drops when he transforms
into a werewolf (381). Harry retrieves it using "Expelliarmus" as
Pettigrew turns back into Scabbers (same page), so Pettigrew is again
wandless when he returns to Voldemort. As for Snape's wand, Sirius
must have dropped it when he transformed into Padfoot since it's back
in Snape's possession when he regains consciousness and conjures up
the stretchers. The entire long scene seems to indicate that animagi
and werewolves don't keep their wands when they transform, at least
not if the wands are in their hands. Pockets may be another matter, as
the invisibility cloak reference seems to indicate. . . .

Another point relating to Sirius and objects that seem to just
disappear--there's an inconsistency in Hagrid's story regarding the
motorcycle. In SS (Am. ed.) he says that "young Sirius Black lent it
to [him]" (14) and that he'll "be takin' Sirius his bike back" (16),
but in PoA he says that Sirius gave it to him because he (Sirius)
wouldn't be needing it any more: "Told me ter take his motorbike ter
get Harry there [Privet Drive]. 'I won't need it anymore,' he says"
(PoA 207, Am. ed.). A few lines later, Hagrid says, "He loved that
motorbike, what was he givin' it ter me for?" (same page). The bike
was "borrowed" (SS 14) but now (PoA) it's a gift? Has Hagrid's
perception of Sirius as a "murderin' traitor" distorted his memory? Or
(dare I suggest this?) did JKR forget to check the previous
conversation before writing the second one?

Carol, who wonders if the motorcycle is keeping company with the
Flying Ford Anglia in the Forbidden Forest or if it's just forgotten,
along with Fluffy, in the No Man's Land of forgotten plot devices.