Thursday, July 10, 2008

Continuity question

A while back, I found a clear break in continuity regarding the color of Ginny Weasley’s eyes in the Harry Potter series. (In one book, they are described as green, and in a later book, they are brown.)

Well, I have another question regarding a plot point that seems at the very least unlikely and at worst, downright impossible. I am open to any reasonable explanation, but it needs to explain all relevant facts.

Bear with me for a brief synopsis of the events as they occurred just before the beginning of book one (HP&tSS/PS): Lord Voldemort had been spreading terror and misery to all and sundry, and his Death Eaters were randomly torturing Muggles and killing wizards. But for whatever reason, Voldie gets it into his pointed little head to kill Harry and his parents.

He fails, Harry’s parents are killed, Voldie is blasted to almost a spirit form, the house is destroyed, and Harry is picked up out of the wreckage by Hagrid.

What happened to Voldemort’s wand? James’ and Lily’s wands would have been found next to their bodies (and probably buried with them), but Voldemort’s wand would have been dropped, too, since he came closer to death than even he could have imagined, requiring extraordinary efforts just to stay coherent. Deep in the forests of Albania, I might add.

Wouldn’t his wand have been picked up by the wizarding equivalent of CSI teams? And then snapped in half to make sure that he could never come back to power?

When he finally regained a body in Goblet of Fire, how could he have ended up with exactly the same wand (down to identical cores - both wands had phoenix tail feathers from Fawkes) as he had when he was blasted into near-nothingness thirteen years before?

Any ideas?