Problems at the end of GOF

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 124680


Richard Jones asked:
(snip first 2 questions)
> (3) And how did LV have the wand he killed James and Lily with?  At 
> Godric's Hollow, he turned into vapor so he couldn't carry it.  So 
it 
> must have just fallen down and maybe picked up by someone else at 
> Godric's Hollow, but the Death Eaters didn't know he was alive or 
> where he was and if a member of the Ministry got it they would 
> probably destroy it or keep it well protected (and even if Lucius 
> Malfoy stole it from the Ministry how would he get it to LV since 
he 
> didn't know LV was alive, let alone where he was?).  LV spent 13 
> years as vapor and a snake and like that, and so he couldn't carry 
it 
> in any of those states.  Wormtail was a rat and couldn't carry it.  
> LV had to have Wormtail use it in graveyard against Cedric because 
he 
> couldn't.   So how did he come to have his wand in the graveyard?

Ginger:
Good questions, all, Richard. 
May I point you to a post from the distant past?  The ever-insightful 
Elkins posted a theory in message #39785 which speculates that Hagrid 
picked up the wand, not knowing whose it was, and Peter went to hide 
out in his hut in PoA and found it there.  Her post is much better 
than my clumsy summary.  It is in the middle of a thread called "the 
Spying Game" in which the MAGIC DISHWASHER was founded and 
christened. Practically impossible to follow due to all the offshoot 
threads, but if you ever have a few months of free time, do read it.  
It's a gem of a thread.  I think it started in #39662.

Ginger, missing Elkins, muses:
Where have you gone, folks of long ago?
Us oldies turn our longing eyes to you, woo woo woo.