Sirius' Wand

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 82749

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 This is probably a tres stupide thing to ask, but why couldn't 
Sirius 
> have just gone to Ollivander's and bought a new one? 

Maybe because he's still the Wizard World's Most Wanted Escaped 
Convict with a price of 10,000 galleons on his head.  I doubt Sirius 
could waltz down Diagon Alley in pursuit of a new wand at 
Ollivander's, even assuming Ollivander conducts his business like the 
goblins at Gringott's and simply doesn't care who walks into his 
store to purchase a wand.  Surely someone else in that very busy 
street would have noticed Sirius' presence.  


 The wand 
> chooses the wizard, yes, but I could see the MOM destroying his 
first 
> wand upon his imprisonment.  Surely a *second* wand can choose the 
> wizard if the first is lost or destroyed? 

I'm sure that's true, but there's still that pesky business 
of "wanted criminal wandering openly through the streets" that would 
seem to preclude the easy purchase of another wand for Sirius. 
Perhaps it was a simple as Lupin or someone going to Ollivander's 
with a fictitious story about why they needed a new wand. Whoever 
this person is purchases a wand and gives it to Sirius.  It's not a 
perfect match, but it's a wand, and probably better than being 
wandless.

Marianne