Horse Feathers

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 93719

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> We are told that Fawkes has given just two feathers.
> Not told where or when mind, that would be telling us too much.

They could have been feathers used by fawkes for delivering messages 
like in ootp where two feathers are used to deliver a warning to 
dumbledore and later a message to Sirius. Hmmm perhaps Rowling is 
sowing the seeds for a future conflict.

> 
> 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.

I really don't understand what you're getting at.

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

It's not a coincidence. It's destiny in some ways.
 
> 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!

How so? Perhaps the wand recognized the piece of Voldy in Harry. It 
has nothing to do with who has the dominant psyche. Or perhaps it 
went to Harry because he was the chosen of prophecy or possibly 
because Harry like Voldemort was going to do great things and the 
wand is made for such a person.

> 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

I don't understand what you are implying. Mind elaborating your point?