LV's Wand question

[Annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 162351


Nicole wondered:
> I have read & re-read all the books, and I am having trouble 
finding where it says LV kept his wand.  How did Wormail have his 
wand?  Did he carry it around when he was just a head & a cape? 
Obviously he has HIS exact wand or the prior incatatem (sp?) wouldn't 
have produced the past murders.
> I have tried to find it, anyone find what I have missed?  Or are we 
to assume he was just carrying it around.

Annemehr:
I'm not sure who you mean as having been "just a head & a cape," but 
neither Voldemort nor Wormtail ever were.  At Godric's Hollow, LV 
was "ripped from his body" [GoF ch. 33] and existed, as we now know, 
as a somewhat frayed soul bound to Earth by several Horcruxes.

JKR has always refused to answer who else may have been at GH that 
night, so naturally we can't resist speculating.  I like to think 
Wormtail was there, and LV intended to force him to help kill the 
Potters just as he later forced him to help use Harry to get his body 
back in GoF. (And I think he will end up forcing him to try to help 
kill Harry in the next book, too.  With interesting results, I 
expect.)

Anyway, there's no knowing for sure, but I think the simplest 
solution to the wand question is that Wormtail was there, and picked 
up the wand and stowed it in his own robes.  It's possible he then 
stashed it somewhere, but I doubt it.  

We know that when an animagus transforms, their clothes and anything 
on their person (e.g. eyeglasses) transform with them.  Sirius 
stashed a Daily Prophet picture in his robes and then swam from 
Azkaban to the mainland in dog form, and emerged on the shore with 
the clipping unharmed to show to Harry months later.

So, I figure, Wormtail had LV's wand hidden in his robes when he 
staged his own death and framed Sirius (I mean the robes he was 
wearing, not the bloodied ones he left at the scene along with his 
finger for the Ministry to find).  Then the wand was safely on his 
person all the years he spent in rat form with the Weasleys, until 
the day he met up with LV in Albania.  Safest place for it, really.

Annemehr