Broken wands - Hagrid's crime - Sad Snape

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 20901

Marianne wrote:

>Am I remembering correctly that Azkaban prisoners have their wands broken, 
>or is that a fanon idea?

IIRC, canon never says, but if you get your wand broken when you're expelled 
from Hogwarts, then it stands to reason it would be broken/confiscated if 
you went to Azkaban for murder and conspiracy.

Actually, if I'm going to demonstrate the precision required in LOON, we 
don't know that all expelled students get their wands snapped.  Hagrid 
wasn't expelled for skipping exams or something harmless like that.  But if 
underage wizards aren't allowed to do magic, perhaps all expelled students 
do lose their wands.

OK, now I'm thinking (uh-oh, clear the decks!).  What, officially, did 
Hagrid get expelled for?  TR seems to be saying that he was literally 
expelled for opening the Chamber of Secrets (CoS 17), but then why does 
Binns insist that there's no such thing (CoS 9)?  He was around (alive or 
dead) at the time.  He could have been lying to the students when he 
insisted that the Chamber doesn't exist, but I didn't get the sense that he 
was lying, but that he was just being his thoroughly unimaginative, 
anti-superstitious self.

Back to Sirius's wand for a moment:

Susan H. wrote:

>However, Mr Ollivander
>reminds me of the Saville Row tailors in a play I saw some years ago called
>An Englishman Abroad, in which Guy Burgess, living in Russia after his
>defection, sends back orders for some proper shirts, suits and ties via an
>American actress he meets.  All the tailors, shirtmakers and bootmakers 
>have
>his measurements on file, none of them bat an eyelid about supplying him,
>irrespective of what he's done, and all would die rather than betray a
>customer's confidence.

Maybe--Ollivander does seem to fit that type.  But sending Sirius a wand 
isn't like sending someone new clothes; it's like sending him a bazooka.

As for privacy, Ollivander told Dumbledore about Harry's wand immediately.

But along those lines, I wouldn't be surprised if Ollivander was in the know 
about Sirius's innocence.  Perhaps Dumbledore has informed him of the 
situation and given him a heads-up that Sirius would be coming in to his 
shop for a new wand.  (Maybe the fastidious Mr. O would even consent to pay 
a cave call, boxes of wands in hand, so Sirius didn't have to walk straight 
into Wizard Central.)

Rebecca wrote:

>That is why I am convinced that Snape will practically kill himself to
>appear detached and even callous toward Dumbledore's death in public, while
>suffering like a dog in private.  And I am sure that Harry, who only gets 
>to
>see the public Snape, will hate him all the more for it.

I can definitely see Snape being detached on the outside, in agony on the 
inside.  But by that point (esp. if Dumbledore lives on through 5 and most 
of 6) Harry may have a much better insight into Snape; he's already headed 
that way at the end of GF.  So I can also see Harry having a pretty good 
idea that Snape is miserable but not having any way to express sympathy.

Amy Z

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