CHAPDISC: DH24, The Wandmaker-Bella's wand

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183726

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:

> > Carol:
 
> > How could Bellatrix still have the wand that Ollivander had made 
> > for her decades before?
 
 
> Pippin:

> Bella's a clever witch. She could have found a way to hide it before
> she was captured. But since the damage to Mad-eye indicates she went
> down fighting,  I think she must have recovered it once Voldemort 
> took over the ministry. 


zanooda:

We were never given any details about Bellatrix's arrest, iirc. We
don't know if she "went down fighting", although I agree with you that
it would be out of character for Bella to come quietly. Mad-Eye's
injury (you meant the missing chunk of his nose here, right?) was
inflicted by Rosier, who chose to die fighting (GoF 589).

I agree that Bella could have hidden her wand when she saw that the
Aurors were coming for her, because maybe she was still hoping to talk
her way out of it - according to DD, the Ministry didn't have a lot of
evidence against her and her accomplices. But to be able to talk her
way out of it, Bella needed to get rid of her wand, because Priori
Incantatem would have shown the Cruciatus Curse cast recently.

This leaves one problem - how did she hide her wand? If she hid it in
the place where she was arrested, the Aurors would have found it. She
could have somehow sent her wand away (like DD sent Harry's things to
The Burrow in HBP), but wouldn't she need a wand to do this :-)? Oh
well, maybe Bella was the one who did the actual torturing, so one of
her accomplices magicked her wand away. Her wand was definitely the
most incriminating of all!

As for your idea about Bella recovering  her wand after the Ministry
takeover - I'm not sure, she had her wand in both OotP and HBP. Maybe
it was some other wand, although Hermione was sure that the walnut
wand was "the wand that killed Sirius". Maybe it was just Hermione's 
assumption, but still, I like the idea about hiding the wand better :-).