Broken Wand and Dumbledore's death

[KLMF at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 56335

Hi Everyone!

I'm new on this list, only been reading it a few days,  and I apologize in 
advance if I make a blunder here...so many rules!  I'm on Digest so please 
forgive me if someone already mentioned this.
Great list, love the discussions!

Anyway, it seems to me that a broken wand is not repairable, period.  Wasn't 
Hagrid's wand broken when he was expelled? Wouldn't that imply a kind of 
permanence? Didn't he essentially do what Ron did to make it work again, by 
piecing it together into his umbrella? What I wonder about, though, is why 
when Hagrid does use it it doesn't malfunction like Ron's does. 

Re Dumbledore being knocked off in the next book.....my husband is convinced 
that it will be Dumbledore for the simple reason that he would fit an age-old 
pattern of powerful mentors being killed and then becoming more powerful in 
spirit to those that remain.....case in point--Obi Wan Kenobi in SW.  He 
sited many other examples of modern and ancient fiction, myth, even religion, 
 and as JKR has borrowed from a lot of sources I have to admit he has a point 
there....

Karen 


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