[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's Wand Hand

[Alexander]

No: HPFGUIDX 33710

  Greetings!

> Sandy wrote to us in her wisdom:

> It was me who wrote this:
>>   <snip> But my version is that it's not important at all - you can
>> hold your wand by your right or left arm with no troubles.

s> I disagree.  I am not really left-handed or right-handed.  I bat with 
s> my left, but throw with my right, etc.  When I learn a new activity I 
s> basically have to somehow discern if I should do it left or right 
s> handed, and usually one way seems a lot more natural than the other.  
s> I feel, for whatever reason, that I would definetly hold a wand in my 
s> right hand.  Not that I have or need a wand, sadly.  Yet I feel 
s> really sure that handedness would matter.  Think of it like this, can 
s> you write with your left or right hand at will?  No, most people have 
s> to choose on or the other, and I think the same would stand for 
s> wands. 

  I didn't mean left- or right-handedness of the person in
question, only that it doesn't matter for the wand. :)
  About writing... being a programmer doesn't help in your
writing skills... :) At present moment, I type much faster
than I can write. :(

s> (...)

s> Well, wizards don't necessarily need wands to commit crimes, so
s> taking away their wands wouldn't quite do the job.  I mean they could 
s> still do damage in the same ways that nonmagical people do. 

  Yes, but then they are not dangerous to wizards and can be
simply kept in restraint (to avoid contact with muggles). If
anything, that would be cheaper and simpler (and a damn lot
safer, as we learn in GoF) than maintain a distant island
prison with undead guards...

s> Sandi
s> (right-handed wand holder)

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
(Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed),
and a left-handed wand holder.