[HPforGrownups] Harry & Lord Voldemort's Wands

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 56117


--- Kathryn Cawte <kcawte at blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:
> Now me -
> 
> I don't. I think Ollivander refers to the wands
> as 'brothers' - can anyone
> confirm that? Which to me implies that they are
> related/linked because of
> the magical core but not identical. I think it
> is the core that give the
> wand its magical abilities 

> <snipped text>
 
> What I'd like to know is why Voldemort's wand
> chose him? Obviously we don't
> know how this 'the wand chooses the wizard'
> thing works - so that should
> make answering the question difficult. But why
> would a wand with a core of
> phoenix feather - and not just any phoenix
> feather but one from Albus'
> phoenix - resonate with someone as bitter and
> twisted (and I firmly believe
> TR is both even before he becomes LV) as
> Riddle?
> 
> K

Me:

I see the phoenix feathers more as identical
twins rather than the same just because they came
from the same phoenix.  In some respects the same
but in other respects very different, just as
human identical twins are.  Twins may have the
same outward appearance but have different
personalities.  I also think that all four items,
core, wood, length and characteristic probably
have a part to play in the abilities of the wand
otherwise there wouldn't be the emphasis placed
on those items that Ollivander puts on it.  

I get the sense that the wand responds to the
power and ability inside a person and not whether
they are good or evil.  Voldemort has shown his
power already and Harry has shown glimpses of
just how powerful a wizard he could be in the
future, which the Sorting Hat foretells when it
tells Harry he could be great.

Lynn

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