Confused--help???

[dzny72]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
>SNIP (my original post)
> Geoff:
> Harry explains why Draco became the new master...
> 
> '"You still don't get it, Riddle. do you? Possessing the wand 
isn't 
> enough! Holding it, using it, doesn't make it really yours. Didn't 
you 
> listen to Ollivander? The wand chooses the wizard... the Elder 
Wand 
> recognised  a new master before Dumbledore died, some one who 
> never even laid a hand on it. The new master removed the wand 
> from Dumbledore against his will, never realising exactly what he 
> had done or that the world's most dangerous wand had given him 
> its allegiance..."
> 
> Voldemort's chest rose and fell rapidly and Harry could feel the 
> curse coming, feel it building in the wand pointed at his face.
> 
> "The true master of the Elder Wand was Draco Malfoy."'
> (DH "The Flaw in the Plan" pp.594/95 UK edition)
> 
> The reference to never laying a hand on it points back to:
> 
> 'The door burst open and somebody erupted through it and 
> shouted: "Expelliarmus".
> 
> Harry's body became instantly rigid and immobile...
> 
> ...He could not understand how it had happened - 
> Expelliarmus was not a Freezing Charm -
> 
> Then, by the light of the Mark, he saw Dumbledore's wand 
> flying in an arc over the edge of the ramparts and understood... 
> Dumbledore had wordlessly immobilised Harry and the second 
> he had taken to perform the spell had cost him the chance of 
> defending himself.
> 
> Standing against the ramparts,very white in the face, Dumbledore 
> still showed no sign of panic or distress. He merely looked across 
> at his disarmer and siad "Good evening, Draco."'
> (HBP "The LIghtning-Struck Tower" pp.545/46 UK edition)
> 
> That covers how Draco became the master; I can't recall any 
> reference being made to who recovered the wand but we know that 
> it was in Dumbledore's tomb until Voldemort breaks in and takes it:
> 
> 'Had the old fool imagined that marble or death would protect the 
> wand? Had he thought that the Dark Lord would be scared to violate 
> his tomb? The spider-like hand swooped and pulled the wand from 
> Dumbledore's grasp...'
> (DH "The Wandmaker" p.405 UK edition)
> 
> I'm not sure how the elder wand recognised a change of allegiance 
> to Harry. Ollivander explains that Draco's own wand would now obey 
> Harry:
> 
> '"Hawthorn and unicorn hair. Ten inches precisely. Reasonably 
springy. 
> This was the wand of Draco Malfoy."
> "Was?" repeated Harry. "Isn't it still his?"
> "Perhaps not. If you took it -"
> "- I did -"
> "- then it may be yours. Of course, the manner of taking matters. 
> Much also depends on the wand itself. in general, however, where a 
> wand has been won, its allegiance will change."....
> 
> ...." I took this wand from Draco Malfoy by force,": said 
Harry."can I 
> use it safely?"
> "I tihkn so. Subtle laws govern wand ownership but the conquered 
> wand will usually bend its will to its new master."'
> (DH "The Wandmaker" from p.399 UK edition)
> 
> It seems that the change of allegiance by Draco's wand also 
affects 
> the Elder Wand. It is on this fact that Harry risks the final 
> confrontation with Voldemort:
> 
> '"...and after I have killed you, I can attend to Draco Malfoy..."
> "But you're too late," said Harry."You've missed your chance. I 
got 
> there first. I overpowered Draco weeks ago. I took this wand from 
> him."
> 
> Harry twitched the hawthorn wand and he felt the eyes of everyone 
> in the Hall upon it.
> 
> "So it all comes down to this, doesn't it?" whispered Harry. "Does 
> the wand in your hand know its last master was Disarmed? Because 
> if it does... I am the true master of the Elder Wand."....
> 
> ....Harry heard the high voice shriek as he, too, yelled his best 
hope 
> to the heavens, pointing Draco's wand:
> 
> "Avada Kedavra"
> "Expelliarmus"'
> 
> (DH "The Flaw in the Plan" pp.595 UK edition)
> 
> The rest is history.
> 
> Hope this helps.
>
Thank you SO much--this explains everything--I completely for got 
about the Expelliarmus in HBP.  No wonder I was so confused.

Thanks again!

Dzny