Survival of AK / Occam's Razor, etc.

[carolynwhite2]

No: HPFGUIDX 114469


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "scoutmom21113" 
<navarro198 at h...> wrote:
> 
> Carolyn:
> My theory, if you haven't already been bored to death by it (aha, a 
> new audience!), is that Tom Riddle was originally a protege of DD 
> who went wrong, and that what DD was originally looking for was a 
> successor, to groom to become the most powerful wizard in the WW. 
He 
> made the first Fawkes' wand available at Ollivanders as a kind of 
> litmus test, to tell him when that person came forward.
> 
> Bookworm:
> Interesting.  Do you think Harry's wand was another litmus test
> or made to counter Tom's wand?  If the latter, was it made before
> or after Godric's Hollow?
> 
> Ravenclaw Bookworm

Carolyn:
I think Harry's wand was another litmus test certainly, but as to 
when it was made, difficult to say. There have been a couple of long 
threads debating this over the last couple of weeks. I think it has 
to have been after DD heard the prophecy at the Hog's Head. I think 
that was his signal that there might be solution on the way to his 
Riddle problem. He asked Fawkes' to provide a second feather, briefed 
Ollivander, and waited... (although he had a good idea that it must 
be Harry, the wand was the final proof).

One interesting point is that Neville was never given a chance to 
choose that wand, as he was given his father's. 

Carolyn
Wondering how and when you grow out of wands (if their length is 
related to your height, as is widely speculated). Surely all 11-year 
old children must need new wands by the time they are grown up? So 
what is Voldie doing with his old schoolboy wand anyway?