[HPforGrownups] Harry Can Hold Both A Wand And Another Object (WAS: Harry's wands)

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 43908

> Richelle Votaw wrote:
>
> > Okay, let me stop and evaulate here.  Harry is clutching Cedric's
> > wrist in one hand.  In the other hand he has his wand, which he
> > points at the cup.  Then he grabs the cup.  In which hand?  I'm
> > assuming the one with the wand.  You know, kind of grabs it with
> > three fingers, still holding the wand with two?  I don't see how
> > he'd have had time to get the wand back in his robes and then
> > getting his hand up in time to grab the cup.

Now Phyllis:
>
> In the Quidditch match against Ravenclaw in PoA, Harry "stretched out
> the hand *still grasping his wand* and just managed to close his
> fingers over the small, struggling Snitch" (Ch. 13, UK ed., p. 194,
> my emphasis).  So before the graveyard scene, we have canon to
> support that Harry can catch an object in the same hand that is still
> holding his wand.  Although I acknowledge that a Snitch is a lot
> smaller than the Triwizard Cup, but Harry only had to grab the handle
> of the Cup before the portkey took over and did the rest.

True, I even tried holding a pen and another object in the same hand, pen
can easliy be held by the thumb and index finger, pressed against the palm.
So could the wand.  What bothered me was when Harry returned to Hogwarts,
hit the ground, and to steady himself clutched the "two things" he was still
holding.  Cedric and the cup.  The wand is not mentioned.  Now it is true I
suppose, that Harry could've forgotten he was even holding his wand if we're
seeing through his perspective.  Once Dumbledore stood him up he may have
just stuck it in his pocket out of habit, and never consciously thought of
it.

I will say that I didn't think of the possiblity someone (sorry, sorry,
can't remember!) mentioned that as a Quidditch player Harry's reflexes are
extremely fast and the wand could even have gone into his pocket while in
transit through the portkey, if you can move at the time.  I've never used
one, wouldn't know. :)

Richelle