Lost wands

[frost_indri]

No: HPFGUIDX 88916

> Sylvia wrote:
> I started to wonder what would happen if a wizard lost his 
> wand. ...would it somehow find its way back to him?  <snip>

> Geoff wrote:
> Try some wandless magic or borrow a friend's wand and do "Accio 
wand"?
> 
> Berit replies:
> Or, if you've misplaced your wand in the dark nearby; say "Lumos" 
and  voila, it lights up (like Harry did in the dementor scene in 
Little  Whinging :-)
>>>

Frost:  
  Somehow, I just don't think the Lumos would work normally. Well, 
maybe... ok, what I'm thinking is this:
  1) Super Adrenalin.  If that wasn't a moment where adrenalin would 
rush through the blood, I don't know what is.  As it is, we don't 
really know how adrenaline effects magic, but we do know how it 
effects the body, which includes sharpening of the senses and a sort 
of ability to hyper-concentrate on what is at hand.  Since we know 
that magic does need concentration,  it is likely that Harry's (and 
any other wizards) magical abilities might be a bit heightened at 
that moment, like strength is in everyone.  
  2) His hand was inches from the wand.  So it is possible that the 
close proximity allowed for the wand to received the magical command 
as well.  We don't know what would have happened, say, it had been 
several feet away.    

  So, unless adrenalin wasn't involved in the equation, it is not 
likely to work on a regular basis.  However, if adrenalin didn't 
have anything to do with it,  it could work if in close proximity.  
Or, might turn out that it would work without those two, but somehow 
I don't think it would.  *shrugs*  But that is one person's opinion.


As for finding a lost wand, well... other than I don't think it's 
likely that a Wizard would loose his/her wand (I imagine that it 
must become like loosing your left/right hand, they use it so much) 
I think I agree with the borrowing someone else's wand, or having 
them "accio" it for you.  

Frost