[HPforGrownups] Re: Wand Snapping (WAS Housing and HP female talent, wands)

[Susanna Luhtanen]

No: HPFGUIDX 28813



Susanna Luhtanen
s_luhtanen at hotmail.com



>From: cynthiaanncoe at home.com
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com

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>
>I don't understand the wand-snapping business at all.  The wand
>chooses the wizard.  Fair enough.  You'll never get such good results
>with another wizard's wand.  Got it.  When Harry finally finds his
>own wand, his fingers get warm, suggesting a connection.  OK.
>
>So what good does it do to snap a wizard's wand in half if he can buy
>another at Ollivanders?  Maybe the official "snapping" of the wand
>permanently disrupts the energy bond, the connection with the wizard
>that Harry feels when his fingers get warm.  So every other wand at
>Ollivanders knows that a wizard with a snapped wand doesn't have the
>proper "energy" field to be allowed to select another.  (Kind of the
>way a muggle probably can't go in and choose a wand, either, as the
>wands would recognize the muggle as lacking the proper magical
>energy).  That means Hagrid probably can't go in and "choose" another
>wand.
>
>What about Sirius?  Well, if they snap your wand in half for being
>expelled, then they must pulverize it in a food processor for
>receiving a life sentence in Azkaban.  No problem, though.  Sirius
>has already shown he can do pretty complex magic with someone else's
>wand, as he conjures manacles in the Shrieking Shack with Snape's
>wand.  So he could someday have someone buy him a wand and still use
>it, as imperfect as the fit might be.  Sirius can pull this off
>whereas Hagrid cannot because Sirius is very talented, powerful and
>fully-qualified (not to mention dead sexy), and Hagrid is none of
>these things.
>
>I don't think Sirius has a wand while on the run, though.  There's
>not much canon to support this idea, but I think his using a wand
>frequently would give off energy that might allow MoM to track him
>down.  So he probably won't get his own wand until his name is
>cleared.  Also, the fact that Sirius is leading a tough life in a
>cave in GoF suggests he doesn't have a wand.  Otherwise, he could
>solve his food problem with spells like "Accio Meatloaf."

Yes... Sirius doesn't have one. (I think that his wand and Pettigrew's were 
identical. When captured, Sirius was holding Pettigrew's wand, his own safe 
in the saddle-bag of the motor-cycle... just that he can't get it back now)

>What about Ron's "snapped" wand in CoS?  Why doesn't that disrupt
>Ron's wand energy such that he can't select another wand?  Well, it
>wasn't Ron's wand to begin with (it was Charlie's), and it wasn't
>officially "snapped" in the same way as Hagrid's, I guess.

That's right - it was Charlie's - and, Ron could still use it with 
Spellotape - and it got destroyed when Lockhart tried a memoryspell.

I don't think snapping a Wand - officially or otherwise - would cause any 
detect to the wizard's magical energy. Merely that there'd be no wand to 
match anymore (although it's obvious that they do get new ones from time to 
time) - or Ollivander would refuse to sell.

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