Fawkes' Tail Feather in Harry and Voldemort's Wands (WAS: Fawkes and the Sea)

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 43076

Another thought on Fawkes being Godric Gryffindor's phoenix - both 
Harry and Voldemort's wands have the only two tail feathers of Fawkes 
ever used in a wand.  Since the "wand chooses the wizard," it makes 
sense to me that if Harry is a descendant of Gryffindor, a wand with 
Fawkes' tail feather would "choose" him.  And red and gold sparks 
come out of the wand the first time Harry waves it - the colors of 
both Fawkes and Gryffindor House.

But why would a wand with Fawkes' tail feather also choose 
Voldemort/Riddle if Voldemort is the heir of Slytherin, Gryffindor's 
enemy (IMO), and Fawkes was Gryffindor's phoenix?  Well, maybe 
Voldemort/Riddle hadn't turned evil yet when he bought his wand from 
Mr. Ollivander at age 11.  If his mother died right after he was born 
and his father left him in a Muggle orphanage, like Harry, he 
probably did not find out that he was a wizard until his Hogwarts 
letter arrived.  So there might not have been enough time for his 
anti-Muggle anger to brew before he went to buy his wand.  After all, 
as Dumbledore tells Harry at the end of CoS, "You happen to have many 
qualities Salazar Slytherin prized in his hand-picked students.  His 
own very rare gift, Parseltongue - resourcefulness - determination - 
a certain disregard for rules."  Since it's "our choices...that show 
what we truly are, far more than our abilities," a wand can't 
possibly know (IMO) what choices the wizard it's sizing up will make 
prospectively.  All the wand can assess is the wizard's current 
qualities (IMO).  So perhaps the wand sensed Voldemort/Riddle's 
qualities, which Dumbledore points out are similar to Harry's, 
without knowing of the poor choices Voldemort/Riddle will make in the 
future.

And why would Fawkes only donate two tail feathers to the wand making 
cause?  I think this is part of Dumbledore's master plan to vanquish 
Voldemort, and is why he needs Harry.  I think Dumbledore was 
planning on a final Harry-Voldemort showdown when Harry comes of age 
in which their wands wouldn't be able to work properly against one 
another because of the priori incantetem effect.  Then Harry would be 
able to use his then-fully developed wandless magic (going back to 
that JKR interview - perhaps through his eyes?) to finish Voldemort 
off (IMO, Harry's internal powers have *not* yet been developed to 
the point where he can channel and use them in a controlled way 
without a wand.  But he's getting there!).

But due to the graveyard duel, Voldemort now knows that his wand 
isn't effective against Harry's wand (Dumbledore and Ollivander were 
the only ones who knew this previously).  So will Voldemort now get a 
different wand?  Since the wand that chooses you is the one that you 
can use the most effectively, will his substitute wand not work as 
well?  Or has Dumbledore's master plan been completely thrown off 
course?

~Phyllis
waiting for Grey Wolf to pick this apart