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Hey, brother!
Okay, Ben, so something that's always been
a little bit unusual to me
is that when Voldemort comes back in "Goblet of Fire",
he somehow still has his original wand.
And this is like a really, really key point in the story
because Voldemort and Harry's wands have twin cores
and this is what causes the Priori Incantatem
that allows for Harry to escape.
And overcoming this particular obstacle
is basically what Voldemort ends up spending
the next three books working on.
It is an enormous inconvenience to him
and a giant plot point.
But if you will recall,
after Voldemort fails to kill Harry as a baby,
he becomes this sort of like vapor mist.
Or to use his own words,
"I was less than the meanest ghost."
So there's really just no way
he could have continued to carry the wand around with him.
And since then, he just spends like the next 11 years
in the woods in Albania.
So again, the question is, how did he get this back?
We'll, today, find out.
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Voldemort's yew wand.
I cannot stress enough how big a deal it is
that he uses this particular stick of wood
against Harry in the graveyard.
Because upon winning this duel,
Harry becomes basically invincible against Voldemort
as long as he's still using his holly wand.
We, of course, learned super early on from Ollivander
that Harry and Voldemort share twin cores in there wands.
- The phoenix who's tail feather resides in your wand
gave another feather,
just one other.
- Then in "Goblet", Dumbledore tells us what happens
when a wand faces its brother. (clears throat)
"They will not work properly against each other.
If however, the owners of the wands
force the wands to do battle,
a very rare effect will take place.
One of the wands will force the other to regurgitate spells
it has performed, in reverse.
The most recent first and then those which preceded it."
But that is not the end of it
because apparently the other side effects from that duel
is that Harry's wand absorbed some of Voldemort's power
and made his wand like extra powerful
specifically against Voldemort.
And in case you're like,
"Wait, what? I don't remember that."
That's actually what accounts
for the golden fire his wand produces
during the Battle of the Seven Potters in "Deathly Hallows".
Hilariously though, if Voldemort had used really any wand
except this wand against Harry in the graveyard,
he might've ended up just killing him right there.
Well, minus the fact
that Voldemort also took Lily's sacrifice into himself
via Harry's blood by 10 minutes earlier.
But who's counting?
I mean, I guess Voldemort would have learned
about the whole Lily's sacrifice protection
living on a lot earlier if he'd used a different wand?
Not that he could do anything about it, mind you.
Also, if he'd killed Harry there,
he would've just destroyed that piece of his soul
inside of Harry at the same time
so he would have ended up destroying one of his horcruxes
the moment he came back.
I guess if he recognized that problem,
maybe he would have succumbed
and just let somebody else kill Harry,
which totally would have worked,
and maybe then he would have won.
Really, it doesn't matter. I think you get the point.
The use of this wand is huge.
But like, how on earth does he even still have it?
Where did he get it?
Was it just like chilling and Godric's Hollow
since the time he tried to kill Harry?
Actually, yes.
In fact, I think that almost has to be the case.
You know what always bothered me
is how Voldemort holds his wand.
He's like, "Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra."
This is not effective.
Avada Kedavra.
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But I know what you're thinking,
like how could the wand have been in Godric's Hollow
the entire time?
That's ridiculous.
Like, the most famous dark wizard of all time
meets his downfall
in an incredibly famous and mysterious way
in a now super famous location,
and neither the Ministry or the Order of the Phoenix
or his old followers or even just curious bystanders
have gone and searched the wreckage
to maybe try and find this exact artifact?
I agree.
It's hard to believe, but I do think it has to be the case.
And I think none other than Peter Pettigrew himself
is the one to return to the scene of the crime
and recover the wand after he flees
in "Prisoner of Azkaban".
Let's look at the facts.
First, we know for sure Voldemort had this one wand with him
when he tried to kill Harry
when he did murder Lily and James,
and that he got it back
shortly after reuniting with Wormtail.
Not gonna lie, I really like holding the wand
while I do the videos.
Lots of fun gesturing!
But we know for sure that Voldemort had this wand
at those times because when the wands meet
and Priori Incantatem happens,
it regurgitates all of the past spells,
and those spells date all the way back
to killing Lily and James,
and then jump forward in time
to when he killed Bertha Jorkins.
So the same wand, this wand, was definitely used
in all of those murders,
and that might've been a given.
But the real question is how can we be sure
that the wand remained at Godric's Hollow?
How do we know he didn't like bring it with him
to Albania or something?
Is there any way we can be sure
he didn't have a way to transport it
after he failed to kill Harry?
Well, again, he claims he was less than the meanest ghost,
but I think the real proof is that when Quirrell meets him,
he definitely does not have the wand.
Because even though him and Quirrell are sharing a body
and he has some kind of physical form,
he is still making Quirrell use Quirrell's wand.
And we can be certain about that
because no spells show up during Priori Incantatem
from that time period.
It also seems to me
that if Voldemort had access to his wand,
he 100% would have had it with him
because he did assume he was going to be getting a new body.
And if he had succeeded and did get a new body,
you know he would immediately wanted his wand.
I mean, literally, the first thing he does
after he does come back,
after having Wormtail robe him, of course,
is caress his wand and then use it
to throw Wormtail against the tombstone.
Why did his followers follow him?
So he loses the wand when it tries to attack Harry
and then doesn't have access to it,
again, until 13 years later, when Wormtail shows up.
Seems pretty reasonable to me then
that Wormtail is the one to go and recover it,
which means Wormtail also had to know
where to look to find it.
And Wormtail would have some serious motivation here
because when he flees in "Prisoner of Azkaban"
it's because he thinks Sirius or Remus will kill him
if they find him, if not, just turn him into the dementors.
But we also know that Peter is afraid to reveal himself
to Lord Voldemort for fear of his retribution.
I mean, after all it is Peter's information
that led directly to Lord Voldemort's downfall.
So, what is a sneaky rat to do?
Well, of course, return to Lord Voldemort,
but avoid his retribution by bringing him a gift,
his old wand.
And Wormtail, of all people,
would know exactly where to look
because he was the one entrusted with the Potter's address
as a secret so long ago.
And honestly, when I was first looking into this,
I thought this was gonna be like a really elegant solution
for why Peter and nobody else
could actually recover the wand.
That of course nobody else was gonna be able
to go search the wreckage because of the Fidelius Charm,
but Peter would be able to because he was the secret keeper.
But as elegant as that might've been,
we know this just isn't true.
I mean, for one Hagrid and Sirius show up at the Potter's
just hours after the murder takes place
to trade a motorcycle and recover Harry himself.
Also, apparently according to the movie,
Snape beats both of them there,
wanders through the wreckage, hugs Lily's body,
and then still leaves Harry there!
But that does not canon, that didn't really happen.
Plus, later on,
when Harry and Hermione stumble upon the scene
in "Deathly Hallows", the text reads,
"He could see it;
the Fidelius Charm must have died with James and Lily.
The hedge had grown wild in the 16 years
since Hagrid had taken Harry from the rubble
that lay scattered amongst the waist-high grass."
But the actual answer for why nobody ended up
searching the wreckage comes a few pages later,
and I think it's a combination of respect and fear.
As Harry and Hermione are admiring the house,
a little sign pops out of the ground and reads,
"On this spot, on the night of 31 October 1981,
Lily and James Potter lost their lives.
Their son, Harry, remains the only wizard ever
to have survived the Killing Curse.
This house, invisible to Muggles,
has been left in its ruined state
as a monument to the Potters
and as a reminder of the violence
that tore apart their family."
The Ministry, the Order of the Phoenix,
and any other curious wizards have all mutually agreed
to leave the house in its completely ruined state
out of nothing more than respect and honor to the Potter's.
Death Eaters, on the other hand,
I imagine, stayed away out of fear
or else just common sense.
Because after Voldemort fell,
the better known Death Eaters were all rounded up
and put in Azkaban,
and the ones who avoided that fate did so
by lying about their true allegiance.
And somehow I think milling around the Potter's old house
and searching through the wreckage
would have looked just a tad too suspicious,
especially since the house is right in the middle
of one of the Wizarding Villages of Britain.
And besides that, most of them probably didn't even assume
that Voldemort was ever coming back again anyway.
Wormtail, on the other hand,
has the unique ability to disguise himself as a rat
and is about as disrespectful
as any human could possibly be.
"Sorry, James, about giving away the location of your house
and getting you and your wife murdered.
Don't mind me as I just searched the wreckage
for the murder weapon so that I can return it
to the murderer."
Seems right up his alley, doesn't it?
Also, just to clear up any other possible loose ends,
it does have to be Wormtail and not Barty Crouch Jr.
Certainly, Barty is way more capable than Wormtail
and probably equally disrespectful.
But the only way Voldemort and a Wormtail
found out about Barty Crouch Jr. was via Bertha Jorkins,
who we know they killed with the wand beforehand.
In a nutshell, Voldemort tried to kill Harry, failed,
lost his wand and it remained there
at Godric's Hollow for 13 years
until Wormtail fled Sirius and Lupin,
recovered the wand and gave it to Voldemort,
who promptly used it to seal his own fate against Harry
for the second time that night.
And that is how Voldemort got his wand back.
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