Horse Feathers

[arrowsmithbt]

No: HPFGUIDX 93729

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "greatelderone" <greatelderone at y...> wrote:
> 
> I don't understand what you are implying. Mind elaborating your point?

The idea that 'the wand chooses the wizard' is true only to a certain
extent. It would be more accurate to say that 'a wand from a selection
made by Ollivander chooses the wizard'. Harry did not  have a free run
of the stockroom, free to choose as whim, instinct or intuition took him.

Think stage magicians - "pick a card, any card and I'll tell you what 
you've got." 

Why  would Ollie think that the counterpart wand to the one that killed
his parents and scarred him be just the wand for Harry? The more likely
thought would be that it would be animical towards Harry, or that Harry
would recoil from it. Sort of magical antigen-antibody reaction. Unless
DD decided that Harry eeded all the protection he could  get and a
conflicting wand might come in very handy some day.

DD  knows Voldy is Tom Riddle; Ollivander knows every wand he's sold.
Put the two together and a wand with certain protective properties can 
be contructed, ready and waiting when Harry comes into the shop.
All the rest is stage dressing.

Kneasy