Thoughts and questions on wands

[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 13606

>   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.
> 
>   ender

In SS, Ollivander says "...But I supposed *they* snapped it in half 
when you got expelled?"  Hagird agrees that, yes, *they* did.  Who 
would *they* be?  Headmaster at the time, Proffessor Dippet?  The 
MoM?  My theory of Hagrid's wand pieces seemingly working quite well 
in his umbrella is that when Dumble brought him on as groundskeeper, 
Dumble 'fixed' Hagrid's wand.  Either put it back together, or 
charmed the pieces to work properly.  (Hagrid tells Ollivander that 
he kept the pieces--maybe he kept the pieces and Dumble 'put' them 
back together; Hagrid just doesn't mention this part to Ollivander.)  
Dumble, knowing that Hagrid's a 'white hat', may have felt Hagrid 
would need that wand at some point.  (I think Dumble has 
always 'known' that Vold would undoubtedly be back--first correct 
prediction and all that.)  So, Dumble knew Hagrid would be a useful 
ally, and thus, had an extra motive for keeping Hagrid around, and 
with a functioning wand, beyond just the fact that Hagrid got a raw 
deal being expelled.  (Hagrid's thoughts on why Dudley only received 
a tail when being turned into a pig were that he was already most of 
the way there; the tail was all that was needed.  His wand makes the 
boat work quite well when he and Harry leave hut-on-the-rock...)

Kelley