[HPforGrownups] Wands and Who Uses Them

[Jacob Lewis]

No: HPFGUIDX 46061

> *...And of course, you will never get such good results with another
> wizard's wand." Mr. Ollivander, PS/SS, Chapter 5*
>
> If Ollivander's statement was true, then how could Sirius Black use
> Ron's wand so well in PoA? And how could Barty Crouch Jr. conjure the
> Dark Mark so easily in GoF?  Wouldn't the wands fail, or at least
> give a weaker result?

I believe the implication here is that over time, you'll grow so accustomed
to your wand, its ins-and-outs (cf. Muggle computers, or cars -- I've had
cars that would only start if /I/ were driving them, and only if I were
holding my tongue in just the right place... erm...) that it just "won't
feel right" to use another wizard's wand.  This doesn't stop you from doing
so, of course -- wands are overall a conduit for the magic (at least, that's
how I interpret JKR's statement that magic is "unfocused" without a wand).
You just won't feel right using someone else's.

Black and Crouch, you'll recall, had their wands broken years ago, and since
then hadn't used wands at all.  Thus, they hadn't "broken" in a wand.

This also goes to the "joke wands in the Kitchen" scene in GoF: Mrs. Weasley
was in a hurry, and didn't look at what she was doing until she tried to
cast a spell, and -- really technical and probably non-canonical moment
coming on -- the core in the wand felt the magic and, um, went all chicken
on her.

Jacob,
who saw dark times ahead when,
"The Islamist-based *AK* party score[d] a clear victory" in Turkey.