Hermione's wand and related question.

[annemehr <annemehr@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48496

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "armillarygirl 
<renitentraven at h...>" <renitentraven at h...> wrote:
>  I have to pose this question after fruitless searching of H.P 
> archives: Does anyone have any information regarding the properties 
> of Hermione's wand?
> 

A very thought-provoking question indeed!  I had never thought about 
this before...

>  Why?
> 1. I find it very odd that for all it's 'screen time' Hermione's 
wand 
> has never been noticed enough by Harry to describe with as much 
> detail as, for example, her teeth.
> 
> 2. Despite Ollivander's assertion, "You'd never get such good 
results 
> with another Wizard's wand",(P.S.,64), first year Hermione was able 
> to flawlessly perform the alohomora charm with Harry's wand. A wand 
> fine-tuned to Harry and, by the nature of their connection, to 
> Voldemort.
> 
>  This question is eating me because:
> I have an inkling that Hermione will *inadvertantly* be the betrayer 
> J.K. Rowling has alluded to in interviews, with a possibly darker 
> plot development. 
> 
>  Again why?
> 1. In a way she already has.
> In her third year Hermione didn't trust Harry and Ron's judgement 
or, 
> importantly, their ability to listen to her concerns, resulting in 
> her going behind their backs regarding Harry's Firebolt. 
> 

Or take much notice of Ron's fear for Scabbers' life and the danger 
Crookshanks seemed to be posing to Ron's pet...

> 2. G.O.F.pg 485,".....I left him with Viktor Krum."
> "You did?" said Dumbledore sharply, and he began to take longer 
> strides still.....
> I'm not sure I take Hermione's insistence of, "He's really very 
> nice",is a brilliant character analysis given Dumbledore's 
> reservations, and her limited contact with Mr. Krum.
> 
> 
Oddly enough, this was in the chapter that I read to my daughters 
last night (they're 12 and 10, but who cares, they like me to read HP 
to them)!  One of them asked me if Dumbledore sped up because he was 
afraid Krum would do something to Crouch.  I said that I thought that 
was meant to be the first impression, but that Crouch's appearance in 
this way obviously meant DANGER to Dumbledore, and that he was more 
likely concerned for Krum's safety.

> Hermione is smart but she blunders, House Elf Liberation Front etc.
> I think Hermione may blunder again, when an increasingly weird 
> hormonal Ron and dare I say it somewhat absorbed Harry, push 
Hermione 
> to another outlet for her concerns.
> The lack of Hagrid as a shoulder to cry on (ala P.O.A.) may prove 
> disastorous when a conversation starting , "I'm concerned about 
Harry 
> because.....",with the ever attentive Viktor Krum, ends with 
Hermione 
> precipitating a catastrophe when Krum passes her revelation along. 
> 
> G.O.F.pg 480,"Hermy-own-ninny talks about you very often." Krum to 
> Harry.
> 
You could certainly be right!  My take on Krum is that he is okay, 
but after all, he did go to Durmstrang.  I can definitely see 
possibilities for him to involve Hermione with some dark wizards, 
with only innocent but mistaken intentions on his own part.

> A powerful, intelligent witch isolated further from;
>              two very cheesed of friends (however justified),
>              absent and possibly indifferent parents, "My parents 
> don't read the Daily Prophet", G.O.F.pg 392,
> and the potential that she's been carting around a yew and phoenix 
> feather wand, as she obviously has the power; could highlight her 
for 
> posible subjectation, afterall Malfoy seems keen and Voldemort 
> himself was half muggle.
> 
Wait.  Are you saying *Ollivander* could have sold *Voldemort's* old 
wand to Hermione?  But we know Voldemort has it himself, and his and 
Harry's are the only two to have Fawkes' feathers.  Or maybe you mean 
that *any* yew and phoenix-feather wand would go to someone with 
vulnerabilities to darkness?  In this case I would have to assert that 
I think *everyone* has vulnerabilities to darkness, and that Tom 
Riddle also had great potential for good, which he utterly rejected.

> I wo'nt to be wrong because I *love* Hermione so a one word answer 
> of, "Hermione's wand is willow with a cute lucky rabbit's tail 
fluffy 
> core", would be of enormous relief, if it's true.
> 
> If you've read this far thank you, and I salute you.
> 
> Lisa, (Newcastle,Australia)
> It's my first post, I'm so proud!

Congratulations!  Though I have some quibbles, I certainly see your 
point, which I hadn't noticed before, that Hermione really does have a 
rather small circle of support, which she does seem to lose sometimes, 
doesn't she (especially if she loses Hagrid)?  And, besides worrying 
about what Viktor Krum might expose her to, we have a 
Rita-Skeeter-Beetle who, I'm afraid, will be looking for an 
opportunity to *destroy* her, one way or another.  We've had some 
recent posts on how ill-advised she was regarding Rita, and what 
trouble this must be going to cause later.

Although I really can't argue with what Hermione did about the 
Firebolt, she certainly does seem to act without enough attempt to 
think out the possible objections to her reasoning, doesn't she?  I'm 
not worried about her wand at all (yet -- I'm just thinking that Harry 
never really gave it a thought), but you've certainly got me worried 
about what might happen to Hermione!

annemehr
the poster formerly (briefly) known as Anne,
but it wasn't specific enough for such a large list!