[HPforGrownups] Re: Comments- open subjects (re: Hagrid's wand, )

[RSFJenny19 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 55026

bboy_mn wrote:
Dippet was headmaster and he
officiated Hagrid's expulsion. So I feel there was definitely A wand
snapped but it's not clear that THE wand was snapped. One possibility
is that Dumbledore gave Hagrid a substitute, and it was the substitute
wand that was snapped. Now Hagrid's original wand is hidden inside his
umbrella.

my reply:
There have been a few ideas about the state of Hagrid's wand  concerning 
Dumbledore (yours was the most recent I found), but none of them really seem 
to jibe with precedent set in canon on how Dumbledore acts.  In every 
situation I can think of, Dumbledore merely provides clues and opportunities 
for people to accomplish things that are unlawful, and never actually 
participates himself.  This leads me to believe that Dumbledore would never 
substitute the wand etc., the most he would do would be to give Hagrid the 
idea to do something like that.

~Jenny