Wormtail and Voldemort's Plans for Murder

[limerent4ever]

No: HPFGUIDX 170367

I am rereading GoF and ran across an old note I made in
the margins where I wondered who else's murder Wormtail
and Voldemort were planning at the time of their conversation
in Chapter One.


"My Lord, I must speak!"  said Wormtail, panic in his voice now.
"All through our journey I have gone over the plan in my head --
My Lord, Bertha Jorkin's disappearance will not go unnoticed for
long, and if we proceed, if I murder --"
"If?" whispered the second voice. "If? If you follow the plan,
Wormtail, the Ministry need never know that anyone else has died.
You will do it quietly and without fuss; I only wish that I could
do it myself, but in my present condition ... Come, Wormtail, one
more death and our path to Harry Potter is clear. I am not asking
you to do it alone. By that time, my faithful servant will have
rejoined us --"


Bertha is already dead I presume and is supposed to eventually be
known about as shown by the word 'else' in this sentence fragment,
"the Ministry need never know that anyone else has died". Moody
they need for info and hair so I think he is out. Harry they need
for the ritual and in any case I don't think they would want to
hide it from the Ministry.

So who else could have been murdered that may not be known yet?

Earlier in the chapter Wormtail says this...


"My Lord, I do not say this out of concern for the boy!"  said
Wormtail, his voice rising squeakily. "The boy is nothing to
me, nothing at all! It is merely that if we were to use another
witch or wizard -- any wizard -- the thing could be done so much
more quickly! If you allowed me to leave you for a short while --
you know that I can disguise myself most effectively -- I could
be back here in as little as two days with a suitable person --"

So is Wormtail disguising himself as the murdered person at
times so no-one suspects? We don't see him in the 5th book
but he does appear at the beginning of the 6th book.

Does anyone have any thoughts on who was meant to be killed
without the Ministry knowing?

limerent