Neville's father's wand (Was:Where Have the Wands Gone?)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86586

-Carol wrote:
> > The fact that Neville's gran gave him his father's wand brings up 
> an
> > interesting point
> <snip>
> > Neville's father wasn't dead. His mother (Neville's grandmother) 
> > may have initially kept his wand, not for sentimental reasons 
> (she 
> > isn't sentimental and he isn't dead) but in hopes of giving it 
> > back to her son when he recovered. When he didn't recover after 
> > ten years, she felt free to give it to Neville.
> <snip>
>  
> True, Frank Longbottom isn't dead.  I didn't mean 
> to imply that he is.  I did use Neville's father's 
> incapacitation as an example for what happens 
> to wizards wands after they die, because it was 
> the closest case I could find.  I should have 
> mentioned this in my post.
>  
> I still feel that Neville inherited his father's 
> wand, just like I assume he would have if Frank 
> had died.
>  
> His father has been incapacitated for years, so 
> something needs to be done with his possessions.  
> I don't know what the ettiquette is, however 
> I would hope that the people who were going to 
> inherit the possessions are the one's who end 
> up with them.
>  
> Yolanda

Yolanda, I know and I agree with you. But I was leading into another
thought, that Neville's gran set Frank's wand aside not as a future
inheritance for Neville, which would be to acknowledge that Frank was
as good as dead, but in hopes of seeing her son recover and returning
the wand she had kept for him. The fact that she gave it to Neville
after keeping it for ten years suggests that she had finally given up
 hope of restoring it to him. At that point it became an "inherited"
wand, as it would have been if Frank had actually died. Gran still
visits her son and daughter-in-law and takes Neville with her when she
can, but I think she has finally accepted their condition as
permanent. (She may be wrong, but that's another thread.)

Carol