missing wands Barty Crouch Jr.'s wand

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 18195

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., nera at r... wrote:
>
> If people who are sentenced to life have their wands snapped, or 
> otherwise destroyed, IYO, and if someone else's wand doesn't work 
> as > well for each person, whose wand is Barty Crouch Jr./Alastair
> Moody > using when he points his wand at Malfoy and turns him into 
> a ferret?

I think JKR intended that the fake Moody was using the real Moody's 
wand. Just because one never gets AS GOOD results with another 
wizard's wand doesn't mean that one doesn't get ADEQUATELY GOOD 
results...   

If a wand becomes gradually more accustomed to the person who uses 
it, and more adjusted to that person as it becomes more accustomed, 
then it would be a strange co-incidence if the real Moody and Crouch 
Jr had very similar wand attunements (well, both are fanatics).

But when Ollivander made the statement about never getting as good 
results with another wizard's wand and "the wand chooses the wizard" 
(and he has a motive to want to sell new wands to people rather than 
them using old wands from relatives), he was talking about whether 
the wand starts out with 'vibes' suitable to the person, not about 
results of familiarity. 

I imagine that most witches and wizards would match with any of quite 
a number of wands, and most wands would match with any of quite a 
number of witches and wizards, and it is only very witches and 
wizards with very special combinations of traits who are as hard to 
fit as Harry was, and that Ollivander starts the fitting with 
examples of very common wands that he keeps in the front of the shop, 
and as no match is found, he goes further and further back in his 
storeroom to very unusual wands that may have been waiting in the 
shop for centuries.

In that case, it would be less of a co-incidence if Moody and young 
Crouch both were attuned to the same wand -- they could both be 
attuned to some very common type of wand.

It also would explain how a person whose wand was destroyed could buy 
a new wand (if Ollivander or someone would sell it) -- maybe even 
Harry could buy a replacement wand from Ollivander, who might have to 
go even further back in his storeroom: "I don't want to sell this 
one because it has a griffin's claw as its core, rather than our 
standard unicorn hair, dragon heartstring, or phoenix feather. It was 
made during the Hellenistc era, when griffins were much more 
available than they are now."