Wand Questions

[Phil Boswell]

No: HPFGUIDX 107957

"Marny Helfrich" <marnyhelfrich at c...> wrote:
[snip with spelling corrections]
> What Mr. Ollivander says is "You'll never get such good results with
> another wizard's wand" (SS, Chapter 5 Diagon Ally, pg. 84
> (Scholastic)), which is not exactly the same thing as saying "If you
> use another wizard's wand it won't work at all."  Maybe you get more
> "oomph," more precision, something from a well-matched wand.  And
> after all, neither Ron nor Neville is a champion wizard.

I couldn't let this one pass. Given that Ron now has a new wand, which
was presumably matched to him by MrO, he should be more nearly
reaching his potential, although working all that time with a
mis-matched wand might have done him no good at all.

However, Neville didn't break his wand until the battle in the MoM, at
which point we discover that he has managed everything to that point
with an inherited wand! Recall how many times he was compared
favourably to Hermione: he was second only to her in most of the DA
lessons IIRC.

Whither our Nev once he gets his own properly-matched wand? and will
his Gran finally stop ragging him stupid?
-- 
Phil