Old Question (probably already answered) about Black and wands

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 112813

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lissa Hess <drliss at c...> wrote:
> M.E.:
> 
> My daughter is reading POA for the upteenth time and asked me this
> question. In chapter 19 it says, "gowled Black, his own wand
> pointing at Pettigrew, too..."
>  From where did he get "his own wand"?
> 
> Lissa:
> 
> I'm pretty sure you're right about POA- Sirius is using Snape's wand
in the 
> Shrieking Shack.  I think there the "his own wand" bit is just
referring to 
> the wand in his hand, not that it's the wand he owns.

Finwitch:

I'd say so, yes. For now, anyway.

My theories for Sirius' wand in OOP go as follows:

1. Sirius MADE one himself (as one of the brightest students, why not?
Sure, Ollivander is more experienced, but he's not the ONLY ONE able
to make wands. Just look at Krum, or better yet, Fleur Delacour! Who
do you think made *her* wand?) during his stay with Buckbeak in a
place with exotic birds.

2. It was his mothers'. Kreacher stored it, and Sirius simply took it
to use. (I would, in his place!)

3. He didn't have his wand with him when he chased Pettigrew. He had,
unfortunately?, left it in the saddlepack of his motor cycle - which
he lent to Hagrid, so Harry would be safe... Ministry would have
assumed that PP's wand was Sirius' (So the Priori Incantatem wouldn't
have set him free!) and that PP's wand had exploded along with the
rest of his body...

Finwitch