Owl feathers and LV's wand

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 105207

> Gina Miller wrote:
has anyone ever asked how LV got his wand back? The house was
rubble so did someone go get it? >>
> 
Catlady responded:
> Personally, I always assumed that LV took Pettigrew with him when he
> went to kill the Potters (altho' Legilimency weakens such motives as
> making sure that he is not being sent to a trap by making Peter walk
> in front of him, or making sure that he is not being sent on a wild
> goose chase by having Peter available to be immediately punished),
so when LV was disintegratedd, Peter grabbed up his wand before
> scampering away in rat form. He may have hidden it somewhere from
> whence he retrieved it on the way to rejoin LV, or may have kept it
> with him in rat form all those years.

Carol adds:
I agree with Catlady except for one detail.  He has no wand at all
when Lupin and Sirius restore him to human form, but the has
Voldemort's wand when he AKs Cedric and restore Voldemort's body in
the graveyard. (Irony and foreshadowing, anybody?) so I think your
first idea that he hid it is more likely. But I think he left the
scene in human form, not rat form, because he had his own wand
(subsequently lost) when he blew off his finger and killed the
Muggles. Leaving his wand behind, even if he *could* take it with him,
strengthens the illusion that he was murdered. (All speculation, of
course. But how else can we explain his having Voldemort's wand but
not his own?)

Gina wrote:
Tom Riddle is in fact dead <Catlady's response snipped>

Carol:
How so? Diart!Tom is dead, but the real Tom Riddle was transformed
into Voldemort. Yes, Voldemort left his body at Godric's Hollow, but
he still considers himself to be the son of Tom Riddle Sr. in the
graveyard scene. (See my remarks about "bone of the father" and
"family history" in an earlier post.)  

Gina wrote: 
> << Back to the budgie- there are a lot of feathers on JKR's website-
> any ideas as to what they signify? >>
> 
Catlady responded:
> I thought they were a reference to quill pens used by wizards.

Carol:
I think the two feathers that appear on the main page when you click
the cup for "Other Stuff" are left by the owls who deliver the post.
You hear them fluttering and hoo-hooing in the background as they drop
the envelopes.

Carol