Frank Bryce's Death - query

[pippin_999]

Jo:
> I've been reviewing DD's HRX identification and have come across an 
> *error* which is bugging me and for which I can see no *obvious* 
> implications.
> 
> DD says Voldy got the idea of using Nagini as a HRX after Voldy used 
> her to "kill an old muggle man" for which I take it he meant Frank 
> Bryce in the opening of GoF.  Yet DD *knows* Voldy used his wand for 
> that murder as Harry reports his appearance during the Priori 
> Incantatem incident.
> 
> Is there another death to which DD is refering that I've forgotten 
> about? If not why would DD make this error?
> 

Pippin:
I don't think it's an error, any more than it was an error for DD to say
that Voldemort killed Cedric when he knows it was actually Wormtail
using Voldemort's wand. Nagini told Voldemort that Frank was 
eavesdropping, and one may surmise that she devoured the body
after it was dead. So Voldemort did use her to kill though she was
not  the physical instrument of death. 

Pippin