Horse Feathers

[Barry Arrowsmith]

No: HPFGUIDX 93666

We are told that Fawkes has given just two feathers.
Not told where or when mind, that would be telling us too much.

Olivander ends up with both.
He incorporates them into two wands.
Voldy has one, Harry gets the other.
Sheer chance of course.
And if you believe that, you'll believe anything.

It stretches credulity just that little bit too far to accept that it's 
all a coincidence.

It's maybe significant that Ollivander tells Harry that the counterpart 
of his wand was bought by He Who Must Not Be Named; not Tom Riddle - 
Voldemort. Other posters have wondered about that, generally to puzzle 
out how  Ollivander knows that Tom Riddle became Voldy. So far as I 
know no-one has considered the possibility that *the* wand might not  
have been the first wand that he's owned. Pity that there's no evidence 
one way  or  the other, it might make the puzzle a little easier.

Even if they were forged years  apart, it still doesn't feel 
comfortable. The fact that this 'coincidence' develops into a very 
convenient plot device three books later is no reason to accept it at 
face value.

The odds of the coincidence that we are presented with in PS/SS are 
enormous, almost incalculable, even given that Harry has been at the 
receiving end of one of the wands before. To think that Voldys attack 
would influence Harry's choice ten years later is to argue that wands 
can impart 'personality' to persons other than their users. I suppose 
that some may say that it's the Voldy part of Harry that is influenced. 
To do so is to presume that  Harry is more Voldy than Harry - now 
there's a pleasant thought!

Yeah, I know, Kneasy is on the conspiracy  trail again. What's new? But 
if the wands were made about the same time, from feathers given to 
Ollivander at the same time, then we would be justified in getting 
sniffy about Dumbledore - again. And if they were handed over years 
apart, what did DD know or suspect? Did  he know what wand Voldy was 
using and ask Ollivander to prepare one for Voldys!Bane with the same 
magical core? Just in case?

Time and again it seems that DD knows too much, that he's able to 
anticipate events, take corrective measures.
Is  this  another example?

Kneasy