Thoughts and questions on wands

[prince_galrion at yahoo.no]

No: HPFGUIDX 13534

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ender_w" <ender_w at m...> wrote:
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>   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.

But Ron's wand was not Ron's match - it was a second- or third-hand 
wand (probably third-hand, I believe).  If Hagrid's wand was the 
match for Hagrid, it might work better (not to mention that he may 
have had some aid from Dumbledore for a more professional repair-job).