LV's Wand question

[Dorothy McComb]

No: HPFGUIDX 162358

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "k12listmomma" 
<k12listmomma at ...> wrote:
> Shelley replies:
> You haven't missed those details, as JKR just hasn't provided them
> in the books. It's the one area that I think has caused the most
> speculation for another person being present (presumably, another 
> DE) at the time of Lilly and James's murders, for the wand had to 
> have moved from where he used it (at Godric's Hollow) to get to 
> where LV was hiding. We all are assuming that he didn't have any
> power or physical strength left to carry it himself, but maybe
> Rowling forgot to say that he was at least strong enough to drag his 
> sorry butt and his wand out of there.
>

A quote from Goblet of Fire, Chapter 33:

"I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the 
meanest ghost ..."

This indicates to me that he was not able to "drag his sorry butt" or 
anything else out of the house at Godric's Hollow.  Therefore there 
must have been someone else there, who grabbed his fallen master's 
wand and then perhaps fled in panic.  I believe this was Wormtail.  
Wormtail alone knew where the Potters were hiding, and it may have 
been easier for him to take Voldemort there by Side-Along Apparition, 
especially if the house, like many houses, had protection against 
unwanted Apparators, than for Voldemort to try to get there by 
himself.  Wormtail, then, witnessed the fall of his Master, grabbed 
the wand, and fled.  The wand was hidden by the very simple method of 
Peter keeping it on him when he turned into a rat.  Perhaps it was 
this wand that enabled Peter to find its owner so easily after the 
events of PoA; less than two months later, he had found Voldemort's 
spirit in Albania, given it some sort of physical form, and returned 
with it to England.  

Snape knew of the first part of the prophecy, and even knew who was 
indicated by it, but did not know Wormtail was the traitor, since 
years later he still thought it was Sirius.  Therefore Snape could not 
have been there, and I doubt Voldemort would have let any other Death 
Eater in on the secret, since it is always a bad idea to have one's 
underlings aware of one's weaknesses, no matter how remote the 
possibility that those weaknesses may be important.

Reduction of unnecessary entities thus leads me to the conclusion that 
Voldemort was accompanied by Peter, and only by Peter, that night. 

Dorothy