How Voldemort Got His ORIGINAL Wand Back | Harry Potter Film Theory

What a wonderfully weird and whacky Woldemort theory, amiright?

What if: SCB wrote the rest of Fantastic Beasts?

I always assumed Peter got the wand the night the potters died, and stashed it somewhere. Then he picked it on the way to find voldy.

The amount of alliteration in the script isn't lost on me lol It's pretty funny.

My own theory for why Hagrid's and only Hagrid's want (but not the Death Eater's) was snapped was it was an aspect of expulsion specifically. In my mind, every fully trained witch and wizard has an irrevocable right to a wand. So where does the leave Hagrid? He wasn't fully trained. Magical schools not only exist to integrate young witches and wizard into the wizarding world but ensure that their magic is not a danger to themselves or others. Hagrid never received this full training and the snapping of his wand is a precaution against the potential danger of that, not an outright punishment of crime (it effectively is but it's not the purpose of such.)

The amount of awesome alliteration left me positively perplexed.

This is all plausible but also extraordinarily complicated. I think a much likelier chain of events would be: - Voldemort kills the Potters - Sirius arrives, but in his rage he fails to notice the wand (or doesn't care) and goes straight for Peter - Peter fakes his death, escapes and arrives at the Potter house, either to see if it's true that Voldemort failed or with the express purpose of getting the wand - He gets the wand and goes into hiding - At some point he moves in with the Weasleys, leaving the wand stashed somewhere - All the events until and including Prisoner of Azkaban occur - Peter retrieves the wand from its hiding place and goes looking for Voldemort I find this much simpler and less dependant on a bunch of weird decisions and odd coincidences.

The alliteration is strong with this one

Given Occam's Razor (the simplest theory is usually correct), consider this instead: Pettigrew was skulking outside the Potter residence when Voldy went in. Why? Because he was about to be either honored beyond belief by Voldy, or something would go awry and he would be in terrible danger (from the Order, and Sirius in particular). He was the Secret Keeper and could therefore witness, in this case from outside, what would happen (like a rat). He sees the whole event go down and is thus the first one on the scene. He finds Voldy's cloak and wand, encounters his two dead "friends," and Harry, crying in his crib after this horrific ordeal. What does he do, rat that he is? He abandons baby Harry and his friends' corpses and flees with the only thing of value: the wand. He does not yet know what happened to Voldy, he has his own wand, and further he has not won this wand. So, he hides V's wand, buries it perhaps. Then he taunts Sirius into a duel (using his own wand) for two reasons: fake his own death (they find nothing but his finger, and his wand! which helps prove his death), and it gets Sirius into Azkaban so that Wormtail is now a bit safer in the world. He won't need his own wand as he is living as a rat. How did he turn himself into a rat without a wand? Under extreme circumstances, one can produce magic without a wand. Or, perhaps he kept his wand and it was lost in another way during the past 13 years of being in hiding. From there, the rest is history, and everything falls into place. Once Sirius and Remus discover him, he transforms, scurries away, retrieves Voldy's wand from hiding and goes searching for him—knowing that Voldy will take him back because he can prove that he is a "trusted servant" by having kept his wand as well as coming to find him.

My personal head Cannon is that the ministry of magic collected the wand as evidence after the Potter murder, but Augustus Rookwood of the Department of mysteries swapped out Voldemort's wand for a fake one and then put the real one in whatever meeting place the Death Eaters had. Fast forward 12 years and none of the other Death Eaters are going to the meeting place anymore, so Peter Pettigrew can just Waltz right in.

I actually think the whole diving for Lupin's Wand thing wasn't to transform, it was to get the magical cuffs off...which is ironic because getting out of handcuffs is literally muggle magic.

There is such a thing as too much alliteration LOL

Carpe means seize...wandeum diem means Wand Day.

I loved the alliterations. And I don't know if it was intentional, but there seemed to be some rhymes and a rhythm, too. The entire video sounded like a poem. Chef's kiss

6:17 I think Peter grabbed Lupin's wand because they had casted him the anti animagus spell, which blocked him from transforming, so he needed to cast the counter to scape.

I think peter needed a wand to turn back into a rat was because they forced him out of his rat form using magic. He probably had some sort of spell on him that disabled transformations that he had to remove before transformating.

Idk if I prefer the mental image of a rat using its own tiny wand or a rat attempting to use a normal sized wand

I never viewed it as Peter needing a wand to transform, I assumed lupin put a jinx on him preventing him from turning back into a rat and he needed a wand to undo that

The "how did Voldemort/ Sirius/ Death Eaters get their wands back" question really is a gaping plot hole

What I think is that this much alliteration makes it hard to focus. It also made me think of pippy from Mr poppers penguins. She only alliterates in P's