Olivander--Good or Bad?

[songwriter42]

No: HPFGUIDX 115703



On my drive home I started thinking about some of the people who have not openly aligned themselves with one side or the other. 

We know that a lot of followers came clean and apologized--whether truthfuly or not, or claimed they were tricked/forced into following Voldemort--and many went into hiding or denied ties altogether. 

Olivander. Part of the Order of the Phoenix? Didn't say so in the book---told Harry Voldemort did terrible but GREAT things and that "we do not speak his name" but which name--Voldemort or Dark Lord? 

Also told Harry that the wand chooses the wizard--but as we have seen time and again--one wizard can use the wand of another and still perform effective magic--- Gilderoy used Ron's (although broken) Barty junior used Harry's to conjur the Dark Mark, and Tom Riddle also used Harry's to write his name---and might have done worse--Neville used his father's wand.... 

But Olivander put the twin phoenix feather wand into Harry's hand---he didn't have to--knowing full well that there might be something very powerful about the relationship. Was it intentional or the wild guess he makes it look like in the story? 

Dumbledore maintains varying degrees of relationship and communication even with those that are probably friendly to the dark side--(keep your friends close and your enemies closer?) and has called on Olivander for such things as weighing the wands before the tournament--but the character--at least as portrayed in the movie seems a little dark--- 

Olivander's has been around for a very long time and I think it is possible that he is still in business due to quid pro quo with the Death Eaters and darker wizards during the terrible time. 

All those magic wands in one place would have a lot of dormant magic energy which could be used as a powerful weapon. Kind of a magical nuclear storage facility. 

Deb