Horse Feathers

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 93806

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> 
> 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.

And how long would it have taken 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? 

Because he was running out of wands. Remember. Testing out each wand 
probably narrowed down the category for him until he decided to give 
the phoenix wand a try. 

> 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. 

That makes no sense. The wand isn't inherently evil only its user. 
Harry would recoil from Voldemort or something touched by him not the 
wand unless it's being touched by him. 

> Unless
> DD decided that Harry eeded all the protection he could  get and a
> conflicting wand might come in very handy some day.

How would dumbledore even know that the wand would choose Harry. 
If it's so easy as you say why doesn't he just create more phoenix 
wands and start handling them out as weapons or tools of protection 
to people chosen by it? The fact that the wands are rare and yet 
Fawkes's feather are not implies that very few are chosen for the 
honor.