Thoughts on Wormtail and the Horcruxes

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 133257

I'm still wildly seesawing on Snape, so I won't post on that.  I was 
wondering what if one of the Horcruxes isn't Nagini?  Was Voldemort 
in any fit state to give away part of his soul when he killed Frank 
Bryce?   I'm thinking about the murder of Cedric Diggory.  It must 
be Wormtail who wields the wand, but whose is the inspiration behind 
the spell- I can't imagine Wormtail having the wherewithal to AK a 
boy he doesn't know.  That 'kill the spare' has always bothered me.  
Why not leave Cedric alive as a witness to Voldemort's triumph; he 
could easily (we know now) be immobilised during proceedings in the 
graveyard.  And Sirius has told us in OOTP that Voldemort doesn't 
often kill personally and for the hell of it, he sends his DEs.  In 
the graveyard, Voldemort hopes to do two things, recover strength 
and physical being, and destroy his nemesis, Harry Potter.  He might 
well want to tuck a bit of soul away before he tries again.  So 
having ripped off a piece of soul with the killing of Cedric, he 
makes a horcrux out of silver and gives it to  Wormtail (after all, 
why would he otherwise care if Wormtail has a prothesis or a 
stump?).  And we see the spell that creates the horcrux in priori 
incantem, we just don't recognise it as such.  And that's why 
Wormtail has been kept at Spinner's End. It's late, so there 
are probably a lot of holes in this theory-any thoughts?

And finally on Wormtail- I know there's been speculation on various 
boards that the silver hand (horcrux or not) was going to be the 
downfall of Lupin.  But we now have another werewolf, named after 
the evil wolf of norse mythology. Fenrir was eventually bound when a 
god placed a hand in his mouth- it was bitten off, but Fenrir was 
captured and his power restrained.  Is this Wormtail's redemption?

Leah