CHAPDISC: DH24, The Wandmaker-Bella's wand // Longbottoms

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 183727

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).

Jen: I think Pippin's referring to Mad-Eye's presence at the two 
prior Pensieve trials with both eyes intact (and his leg as far as we 
know).  Then he's absent at the Longbottom trial.  It's a decent 
extrapolation one of the best aurors went after the Longbottom 
torturers given the 'wave of fury' over the fate of the popular 
aurors and the timing of the event when 'everyone thought they were 
safe.'  (GOF, "The Pensieve")  Mad-Eye worked directly with the 
Longbottoms; you'd think the guy who watched Karkaroff and Bagman 
brought to justice - minor figures at best - wouldn't miss the most 
important trial 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 :-).
 
Jen: I favor Bella hiding her wand too.  Maybe it was in her vault & 
the Goblins wouldn't let the Ministry search it because they didn't 
have proper clearance. <g>  The MOM doesn't have a system of checks 
and balances with Gringotts, right?  Not like the board of governors 
for Hogwarts.  (The board of governors is connected to the MOM, isn't 
it?)