[HPforGrownups] Re: Thoughts and questions on wands

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Amy Z 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 12:23 AM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Thoughts and questions on wands


  Dave wrote:

  > Personally, though, I'm not convinced they really break wands in
  > in two... Why does Hagrid's seem to work well (for growing
  > pumpkins and putting curly tails on bullying gits, anyway)?

  >>Spellotape?  I think they really do.  Hagrid and Ollivander mention it, independently--my sense was that this is the >>standard way 
  >>of demonstrating a wizard's expulsion from magic-making.

  And we all remember how well spellotape worked on Ron's broken wand.  I just reread CoS and it left me wondering why Ron's broken, spellotaped wand is always backfiring, yet Hagrid's supposedly fractured wand seems to work through his umbrella just fine...though he did have a little trouble when he tried to turn dudley into a pig.

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