[HPforGrownups] the difference between expelliarmus and accio spells

[ArtsyLynda at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 50591

In a message dated 1/25/2003 3:17:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, aquaiajade 
writes:

> every time a wizard needs to get someone's wand, s/he uses 
> expelliarmus. Would it not be more useful to use accio wand(s)? If 
> expelliarmus is used, it does not specify where the wand would end up 
> and it could fly anywhere, causing the wizard casting the spell to 
> need to run about to catch it.
> 

Seems to me the wizards wouldn't want another wizard's wand too close to 
theirs when they have the wands are activated -- I don't have the book handy, 
but somebody was pulling "most recent spells" out of the end of somebody 
else's wand in one spot, and then there was the case of Harry's and 
Voldemort's wands trying to cancel each other out until Harry won (GoF).  I 
realize that's a very unusual circumstance, since their wands have feathers 
from the same phoenix, but just think how many wands must exist with hairs 
from the same unicorn's tail?  (Unicorn hairs being far more plentiful than 
phoenix tail feathers, I mean, and wands containing unicorn hairs seeming to 
be more common as well.)  Another thing is, the wizard who does 
"expelliarmus" to another's wand is trying to disarm that other wizard, and 
getting the wand out of his hand is what he's concentrating on -- where it 
lands isn't that important, because the wand isn't powerful by itself -- 
somebody has to operate it (I guess it doesn't have to be a wizard -- even a 
house-elf can operate one, apparently).  I'm still kind of new to all this, 
so I could be mistaken, but that's what occurred to me when the same question 
popped into my head while reading.  Boy, I wish I could do "accio" spells 
myself -- then I wouldn't be hunting for my cell phone and keys all the time! 
 LOL!

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