Voldie's Wand and other details

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 140297

darqali:
> Asked before, and got no answer, so trying again:
> 
> *How did LV regain his wand?*

>  ...So possibly, even *probably*, Pettigrew was present at Godric's 
> Hollow.  He could have retrieved LV's wand {and the intended Horcrux 
> object as well} after the house "blew up" and LV lost his body... 
> 
> ...But then Pettigrew fakes his own death  {strange parallel} by 
> "blowing up" a street full of Muggles, leaving behind his severed 
> finger to indicate he was killed, thus ensuring no one will seek him 
> in hiding and framing the one person who could have fingered 
> {*snicker*} him {Peter} as the traitor ...

> ...*So how did Peter Pettigrew manage to keep possession of his own 
> wand, much less hang on to the wand of LV for his master?

Amiable Dorsai:
Simple:  He stuck it in his pocket.  Clothes transform with an
animagus, else McGonagall would appear naked in front of her
third-year classes when she demonstrates her ability. Her glasses
transform as well--her cat form has markings that resemble her glasses
around her eyes.  Rita Skeeter's beetle has similar markings.  Since
clothes and glasses transform with the animagus, why not wands?

So Peter could easily have kept Voldy's wand on his person all those
years. 

Incidentally, it's not obvious to me that he has his own wand--we
don't see him use a wand in PoA, and when he kills Cedric, he used
Voldy's wand to do it.  So what happened to Peter's wand, I wonder?

darqali:
> As for the time of Hagrid's arrival at the Dursely's:
> 
> Dumbledore had to learn of the events at Godric's Hollow, and decide 
> what to do; then Hagrid had to  be summoned by Dumbledore and 
> assigned his task; Hagrid had to go to Sirius Black to borrow his 
> motorcycle...

Amiable Dorsai:
  No, Hagrid ran into Sirius at Godric's Hollow.  Sirius was already
on his way there after he found Peter's hiding place abandoned.

  I see the sequence of events something like this: Late Monday night,
or very early Tuesday morning, Voldemort shows up at Godric's Hollow
with Peter Pettigrew in tow.  He blows open the door and he and James
duel. Lily runs to another room with Harry, and somehow contacts
Dumbledore, probably by Patronus messenger, then has her own encounter
with Voldemort and is killed.  Voldemort makes the mistake of trying
to kill Harry and is ripped from his body.  Peter, his world
destroyed, grabs Voldemort's wand and flees.

  Some time later, Dumbledore recieves the message, and has a
problem--Voldemort has somehow cracked the Fidelius Charm.  At this
point, he probably can't wrap his mind around the idea of Sirius Black
betraying James Potter, so he must conclude that LV has figured out
another way to bust a Fidelius--that means the Longbottoms are in
danger.  It's probably too late for the Potters, but there's a chance
he can still save the Longbottoms.  He dispatches the first member of
the Order he can find--Hagrid--to Godric's Hollow, and he goes to
wherever the Longbottom's are hidden.

He waits around at the Longbottom's, ready for Voldemort to show up,
until he gets an astonishing message from Hagrid:  James, Lily, and
Tom Riddle are dead--Harry is still alive!  Oh, and by the way, a
bunch of Muggles and probably some wizards, Aurors maybe, are starting
to arrive.  What should he do?

OK, now what, Albus?

Harry must be the Prophecy Child, that much is obvious.  Harry must be
protected from any stray Death Eaters, that's also obvious. What to do
about that?  Not so obvious.  Whatever else, he mustn't let Harry get
into the hands of the Ministry, the Ministry is full of Voldemort
supporters.

He sends another message to Hagrid, telling him not to let anyone else
get their hands on Harry.  In fact, grab Harry and get lost while he
(Dumbledore), figures this out.

In the meantime, Sirius Black has arrived.  He and Hagrid argue over
custody of Harry for a while.  Sirius gives in.  He really doesn't
want to fight Hagrid, and he doesn't need to be lumbered with Harry
while he goes rat hunting.  He lends Hagrid the motorcycle.  Hagrid
buzzes off and Sirus makes the second biggest mistake of his life:
going off after Peter without telling anyone else why.

All this has probably happened before sunrise.  

Hagrid finds a place to hide (Hogwarts?) for a day while Dumbledore
checks into things, determines that Harry can be protected by his
mother's sacrifice (How does he know this?  That's bothered me for a
while.) and prepares to drop Harry at the Dursleys.

Once it gets dark, he sends a message to Hagrid:  Meet me at number
four, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey.

And the rest is literature.

There are a couple of problems:  How does Dumbledore, or anyone else
who was not there, know what happened?  What clues McGonagall to go to
Little Whinging?

But on the whole, I don't think the "missing 24" is an issue.

Amiable Dorsai