What happened to Voldemort's wand?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 168008

Wranglerdavis wrote:

>> I was just wondering what happened to V's wand. In GoF he states
that he was reduced to less than a spirit. He certainly could not have
carried his wand away with him. Later in GoF, Wormtail uses a wand to
kill Ced. Diggory. Evidently it was V's wand he used because later
Ced's ghost or memory comes out of V's wand. Why would Wormtail use
V's wand instead of his own? Also, after Wormtail uses the wand he
seems to keep it, but Voldemort then reaches into his own robes and
presto it is there. Did Wormtail pick up the robes with his one hand,
and somehow put the wand into the pocket with the same hand before
draping the wand onto Voldemort? Hmm. I'm still wondering how he got
it in the first place.

JW replied:
> This is on my list of questions to be resolved in DH.  The mystery
of LV's wand - and it is obvious LV did not carry it with him - leads
readers to believe that at least one more person was in the Potter
hide-away (in addition to three Potters and LV).  Was it Peter?  Was
it Snape? Lupin? DD?  Somebody from the future time-traveling back to
the scene of the crime?  The speculation goes on and on.  Where was
LV's wand kept until GOF, and who kept it?  Was Peter (in his rat
animagus state for all those years) capable of carrying it, or did he
(or somebody else) hide it for all that time.  Did Peter then make a
pit stop to retrieve the wand before wandering off to Albania to team
up with LV?  Then again, the first time we see LV with ANY wand is in
the beginning of GOF in the Riddle house, when he kills the caretaker.
 Was it hidden THERE?  By whom?
> 
> Lots of questions, a myriad of guesses and speculations.  I have not 
> heard any idea that I find provable or otherwise compelling.

Carol responds:
I just lost a post on this topic, so I'll try again. First, I think
JW's point that LV had his wand at the beginning of GoF is important.
He didn't get it back at the graveyard; he used it to kill Frank
Bryce. In fact, he had it before that since it was also used, either
by LV or by Wormtail, to kill Bertha Jorkins. And that murder occurred
soon after Wormtail abducted Bertha and took her to Voldemort. No
other person--Snape, Lupin, Crouch Jr., or anyone else--was in contact
with LV at that time. The person who returned LV's wand had to be
Wormtail, the same person who resurrected him.

Since Wormtail was the SK and betrayer of the Potters, it makes
perfect sense for him to have been at Godric's Hollow, hiding in rat
form and witnessing the murders of his former friends and the
vaporization of his master. He could have quickly hidden the wand,
maybe Apparating first to get away from GH, and come back for it
later. He would still have had his own wand at that point, so he could
have hidden LV's wand magically.

He must have used his own wand to blow up the street and blast off his
own finger since those spells don't show up on Voldemort's wand
(though the Potters' deaths do). But he no longer has a wand when he's
transformed into a "man" in the Shrieking Shack. (He grabs Lupin's
wand when Lupin transforms and uses it to attack Ron and Crookshanks,
but Harry disarms him, so he's wandless again when he scampers away in
rat form.) I'm guessing that PP lost his own wand after he blew up the
street, dropping it along with the bloody cloak that Fudge mentions in
PoA, and, of course, the finger. It would have been suspicious if his
wand disappeared with him, but if it was lying there on the ground,
he'd be presumed dead. He clearly did not have either his own wand or
LV's with him when he transformed and went into the sewers or he'd
have been armed when Lupin and Black forced him to assume his human
form in the Shrieking Shack.

I'm guessing that he scampered away from the Shrieking Shack,
Apparated to GH or wherever LV's wand was hidden, and returned with it
to his vaporized master, who was evidently possessing small animals at
that point. (Wormtail, who could talk to animals in his Animagus form,
would have had a huge advantage over other wizards in finding him. I
think he did have the wand with him in his Animagus form this time
around, probably in the pocket of his transfigured robes.) As I said,
Voldemort had his own wand at the time that he tortured and killed
Bertha Jorkins. It had to have been brought to him by Wormtail, and
probably Wormtail was forced to return it to him after he restored to
fetal form. It just occurred to me that Wormtail could have taken
Bertha Jorkins's wand for his own use after she was murdered, which
would explain how he could have two wands at the graveyard after
losing his own, but it doesn't explain why he would have used LV's
wand to kill Cedric if he also had Bertha's.

I think, to answer wranglerdavis's question, he must have put
Voldemort's wand into the pocket of Voldie's robes before he made the
potion and used Bertha's wand to summon the "bone of the father" from
Tom Sr.'s grave. Otherwise, I don't see how the wand he used for that
spell could have gotten into Voldemort's pocket.

Carol, quite sure that there are holes in her explanation but unable
to come up with a better one at the moment