Voldemort killed personally?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 157142

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eddie" <harryp at ...> wrote:
>
> > > > Tamara:
> > > > Who has Voldemort killed personally [...]?
> > 
> > Hickengruendler:
> > > In chronological Order (as far as I remember):
> > > 
> > > - Moaning Myrtle [...] 
> > > - His Father Tom Riddle senior and the elder Riddles [...]
> > > - Hepzibah Smith [...]
> > > - Dorcas Meadows [...]
> > > - James and Lily Potter [...]
> > > - Maybe Bertha Jorkins [...]
> > > - Frank Bryce [...]
> > > - Maybe Amelia Bones [...]
> >
> > Geoff:
> > Regarding moaning Myrtle, surely the Basilisk killed her,
> > according to her own testimony in COS.
> 
> Eddie:
> Using the Priori Incantatem from Harry's duel with Voldemort in Goblet
> of Fire as canon we get (in chronological order):
> - James Potter
> - Lily Potter
> - Bertha Jorkins
> - Frank Bryce
> - Cedric Diggory

Geoff:
Returning to the thread's title, these were people who 
were killed by Voldemort's /wand/. He certainly didn't 
kill Cedric Diggory although it seems that he was physically 
able to hold a wand to kill Frank Bryce.

Just to underline from canon:

'He (Frank) was screaming so loudly that he never heard the 
words the thing in the chair spoke, as it raised a wand.'
(GOF "The Riddle House" p.19 UK edition)

'From far away, above his head, he heard a high, cold voice 
say, "Kill the spare."
A swishing noise and a second voice, which screeched the 
words to the night: "Avada Kedavra!"
(GOF "Flesh, Blood and Bone" p.553 UK edition)

After his return, Wormtail clothes him in his robes and the 
wand is in the pocket.
(GOF "Flesh, Blood and Bone" p.553 and "The Death Eaters" 
p.559 UK edition)

Voldemort certainly says of Betha Jorkins: "I disposed of her."
(GOF "The Death Eaters" p.569 UK edition)

Since Wormtail was with him and it appears that he could hold 
a wand - see above - we can perhaps assume from his words 
that he actually cast the spell.

Possibly in the case of Cedric, Wormtail cast the spell because 
Voldemort was caught wrong-footed by the appearance of two 
folk in the graveyard, one of whom he wanted removed immediately.