[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemorts Wand

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 155369

On 7/13/06, spookedook <spookedook at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>   spookedook:
>    How does Voldemort get his wand back?
>
>   zgirnius:
>   My guess is that Peter Pettigrew, as the Secret Keeper, led Voldemort
>   to Godric's Hollow. After the events, he snatched the wand and
>   scampered away in rat form. He returned it to Voldemort after he joined
>   him in Albania and helped him to regain his baby-body and then his
>   adult body.
>
>  aussie:
>  Just as LV likes an audience when he dueled with Harry, he may have
>  had other DE with him at Godric' Hollow.
>
>
> spookedook:
> I disagree, we all know that LV is very secretive, he wouldn't want
> PP knowing his plans, I don't think he'd have wanted anyone to know
> his methods of making himself immortal, because that way they could
> do it too and detract from his power.
>
> Also, if there had been a death eater with him he could have
> returned to his body almost immediately!

Peggy W:
I'm with you on this...  I consider it highly unlikely that Voldemort
would have taken any Death Eaters other than Peter to his mission at
Godric's Hollow.  The Death Eaters seem to have completely lost track
of Voldemort; they only knew that he had gone after the Potters on
Wormtail's information.  As we find out in POA, this is a big reason
Peter had to hide out in rat form for so many years: the Death Eaters
blamed him for Voldemort's disappearance and would have killed him if
they could find him.  This suggests that no other Death Eaters had
firsthand experience of the Godric's Hollow events -- if other DEs had
gone along to Godric's Hollow they would have known what happened to
Voldemort.  This also suggests that the LeStranges would have had no
need of trying to torture information out of the Longbottoms regarding
Voldemort's whereabouts, if a fellow DE could have told of what
happened.

I go along with the idea already proposed, that Wormtail either hid or
ran off with Voldemort's wand, returning it to him after relocating
him.  This makes a lot of sense, actually, because it fits in with
Wormtail playing an important active role in this story.  I think it
fits his personality completely: he betrayed the Potters to Voldemort
for his own advantage; he took Voldemort to their doorstep and
witnessed what happened (speculation, we don't yet know this for
sure);  he schemed to cover up his role, all the while knowing
Voldemort wasn't dead; and he brought Voldemort back only when it was
to his own advantage to do so.  I can easily imagine him secreting
Voldemort's wand to be retrieved at a future time in case it would be
of strategic use to him -- and indeed it was, after Sirius found him.

Hiding Voldemort's wand is part of keeping all his options open.  It
fits Wormtail to a tee.

-- 
Peggy Wilkins
enlil65 at gmail.com