63: I suppose we should take Moody’s not finding Voldemort’s wand as evidence that their suspicion about moving the graveyard is correct, but they are wrong on not telling even Bellatrix? Or did Dumbledore already find the wand years earlier?
Note that the wand was under the tombstone to the right of his father’s grave, not under his father’s grave itself. Unless they had reason to think he had hidden something in the graveyard, it’s not obvious they would have looked there.
Actually, this is evidence against Moody’s theory that the graveyard was moved, since there has to be a tombstone to the right of the grave. Moody could still be correct, however, if Voldemort already recovered the wand earlier, and moved the graveyard after doing so.
I didn’t think a bit of stone and dirt would block the Eye of Vance when the true cloak of invisibility doesn’t, nor the users own head. Well, I guess it might be possible to hide from the Eye of Vance by staying out of direct line of sight after all.
Maybe it’s common enough to bury a wizard with his own wand that Moody doesn’t think twice about seeing a wand in a graveyard.
What bothers me is that it seems foolish to have Bellatrix waiting in the decoy graveyard on the night the ritual is to be performed. What’s the point of creating a fake location for your ritual’s ingredients, then storing an actual ingredient there?
63: I suppose we should take Moody’s not finding Voldemort’s wand as evidence that their suspicion about moving the graveyard is correct, but they are wrong on not telling even Bellatrix? Or did Dumbledore already find the wand years earlier?
Note that the wand was under the tombstone to the right of his father’s grave, not under his father’s grave itself. Unless they had reason to think he had hidden something in the graveyard, it’s not obvious they would have looked there.
Actually, this is evidence against Moody’s theory that the graveyard was moved, since there has to be a tombstone to the right of the grave. Moody could still be correct, however, if Voldemort already recovered the wand earlier, and moved the graveyard after doing so.
Voldemort was unlikely to be able to move the graveyard after losing his body—if that happened the same way as in canon.
I didn’t think a bit of stone and dirt would block the Eye of Vance when the true cloak of invisibility doesn’t, nor the users own head. Well, I guess it might be possible to hide from the Eye of Vance by staying out of direct line of sight after all.
If stone and dirt don’t count, then everything is in direct line of sight of the Eye of Vance.
Maybe it’s common enough to bury a wizard with his own wand that Moody doesn’t think twice about seeing a wand in a graveyard.
What bothers me is that it seems foolish to have Bellatrix waiting in the decoy graveyard on the night the ritual is to be performed. What’s the point of creating a fake location for your ritual’s ingredients, then storing an actual ingredient there?
Bellatrix could have waited at the original location. She could still call it a “graveyard” even with the graves moved away.