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

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 183747

zanooda wrote:
> <snip> And I still vote for Bella hiding her wand and not resisting
arrest in hopes  that the Ministry didn't have any solid evidence
against her. 

> <snip> maybe she hid the wand just in case she will be arrested, so
that it could not incriminate her. I assumed she hid it right before
being caught and I couldn't figure out how she managed to do this. But
now I think that maybe you are right about Gringotts. Maybe Bella hid
the wand there after the crime and used some other wand instead - DEs
killed many wizards and, I suppose, they had some spare wands.
>
Carol responds:

But why would Bella hide her wand when she as much as admitted to
Crucioing the Longbottoms and not only admitted to being but bragged
about being a loyal Voldemort supporter?

"The Dark Lord will rise again, Crouch! Throw us into Azkaban, we will
wait! He will rise again and will come for us, he will reward us
beyond any other supporters. We alone were faithful! We alone tried to
find him!" (GoF Am. ed. 595-96).

(Contrast that to Barty Jr. screaming that he's innocent, which is
contradicted by Bella's "we." If he weren't worthy of the dubious
honor of inclusion, she'd have said so.)

IMO, Bellatrix is proud of her crime, and her wand, along with the
others, must have revealed her guilt and that of the other three for
the jury to pass sentence with such vindictive unanimity.

So, assuming that the wands were presented as evidence, I can only
conclude that for some reason, they weren't destroyed and were somehow
recovered in time for the escaped DEs (not just Bellatrix and the
Lestrange brothers, Barty Jr. being absent for good reason) to use
their own wands at the DoM.

Either that or JKR just forgot that Bellatrix (and, by extension, the
other escapees) would have lost their wands. But Lucius, too, has his
own wand, and he was arrested after Bellatrix and the others escaped.
Some of the DEs arrested with him, for example Dolohov and the
Lestrange brothers, must have had their wands confiscated twice!

Contrast Sirius Black, who escapes *without* his wand. He's wandless
for all of GoF, apparently, and apparently only finds a wand, perhaps
his mother's or father's or an old one of his own, when he comes to
live at 12 GP.

I do wish that JKR would think about such things, but apparently, her
mind is on the main plot, chiefly on Harry, and on those important
secondary characters, Dumbledore and Snape.

Me, I care about details, which is why I'm a copyeditor.

Carol, who was in San Diego for three and a half days (Thursday
through Sunday) if anyone wondered