[HPforGrownups] Re: Charlie's Wand.

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 54826

On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, alex fox wrote:

> 
> But MY problem with that is, WHY didn't he tell DD? Or the MoM? 

Why are you sure he didn't?  IIRC, Ollivander did contact DD about the
fact that Harry's wand was a "brother" to Voldemort's, so there is clearly 
a line of communication between the two.  And until the end of GoF, DD is 
one of the most important advisors to the minister of magic.  If he wanted 
the Ministry to know, they would.  I don't know why the information isn't 
public knowledge, but DD at least does know.


> The MoM
> could have tried to research and confiscate everything associated with
> Riddle. 

Maybe they have tried.  Trying doesn't mean they are necessarily going to
be successful.  We know Lucius is hiding a great deal of illicit dark
magic items in his manor (which at one point included Tom Riddle's diary),
and while the MoM suspects he has this stuff, they haven't been able to
dig it all up yet.  Lucius is good at hiding things he doesn't want found,
and other followers of Voldemort might be hiding his relics as well.  

> Or is he a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" kind of wand seller? Yes,
> that does kind of make sense! After all, he dosen't sell wands just to
> the good guys. My favorite First Family of Evilness , the Malfoys, buy
> their wands there, I'm sure. 

We haven't seen him refuse service to anyone.  However, since he contacted
DD about Harry's wand, I don't think "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is quite
accurate either.  Of course, we don't know how he would react if Peter
Pettigrew (or Voldemort himself) walked in and requested a replacement
wand.  There very well might be some wizards he won't sell to, but we
haven't seen enough of his business to know that.

Lucius Malfoy was cleared of all charges after Voldemort's first fall, and
he is a prominent philanthropist. We the readers know that the Malfoy
family is pretty damn evil, but they are not considered so by the general
public.  Therefore, Ollivander's (presumed) willingness to sell to the
Malfoys doesn't tell us much about his willingness to sell to *known* dark
wizards.  


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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"