Draco's wand

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 91576

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lizvega2" <lizvega2 at y...> wrote:

> lizvega2:
> ... the conversation that Harry has with Draco in Madam Malkin's. 
> Draco says that his father is buying his  books, and his mother is
> up the street looking at wands. 
>
> Does this  mean that Draco's mother purchased his wand? Are there
> any ramifications of this?


bboy_mn:

I think we frequently get ourselves into trouble when we take general
speech and regard it as literal speech, or worse yet stretching it
into assumed speech. When Draco says his mother is at Ollivander
LOOKING at wands. Looking means looking, so we shouldn't stretch it to
mean something that contradicts the book. 

It could just as easily mean that Mrs. Malfoy found buying books and
trying on robes to be incredably boring and tedious, so she went off
on her own and said she would meet them at Ollivander's.

So, like many of us do, Draco generalized his statement rather than go
into a long boring tedious explanation, and said she was at
Ollivander's looking at wands. She was /looking/ because she wouldn't
be able to buy until Draco showed up and found the right wand.
However, his father was /buying/ books because he didn't need Draco
there to do it.

So, I personally don't see an inconsistency here.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn