Wand Questions

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No: HPFGUIDX 107088

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Sheri <fandomfan at r...> wrote:
> Sorry if this has been discussed before but I can't figure it out. If 
> the wand chooses the wizard, why can Ron and Neville use another 
> person's wand? Also, since Ron had been using Charlie's old one, what 
> reason would Charlie have for getting the new one? Was it ever implied 
> in the books that you can have more than one wand?

I always thought "the wand chooses the wizard" was probably Mr Ollivander's idea of 
marketing - encouraging people not to use their ancestors' wands but to buy their own.  I 
guess it is partly true, but not as much as Ollivander would like us to think.  I imagine that 
Charlie eventually fell for the sales patter and got his own when he could afford it - the 
one he passed on to Ron wasn't originally his either.

Eleanor