Wanderings and Wonderings about Wands

[Andrea Renkel]

No: HPFGUIDX 29321

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Jason Bailey <jbailey at r...> wrote:

> Did we ever figure out how V's wand made it back into his
> possession. I guess it could have been returned to him by the person
> who really killed James and Lily with his wand (going along with the
> second "shooter" theory found at the lexicon site)...but I don't buy
> that theory, so I'm curious as to any other theories out there.

I always thought it most likely that Pettigrew was near the Potter's 
house that evening and that it was him who took V's wand and kept it; 
not necessarily with the intention to maybe return it (how should he 
know at that time, that Voldemort would indeed return?).


> 
> On the subject of Olivander's statement, I believe that certain 
wands
> are best suited for certain types of magic and thus will be better
> suited to certain wizards. 

My favourite theory about wands in a nutshell:
How do wizards perform magic? We know that they can do *unfocused* 
magic without a wand (like Harry setting the snake free at the zoo). 
So my guess is, that what distinguishes wizards from muggles is - in 
lack for a better expression - they posess *magic energy*, maybe 
similar to the chinese concept of 'chi', in case you're familiar with 
that. The wand in this case is merely a tool to collect/focus that 
energy to a certain point. We've already seen that curses can be 
dodged like bullets...
 
And of course the wand would be more effective when it's exactly 
matched with the *wavelenght* of the magic energy of the wizard who 
uses it.

Weird? Too new-agey? Hm...
Andrea