(LV's Wand )

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No: HPFGUIDX 113956

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
 
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> My thought is because it had Fawkes' feather for a core - it 
couldn't 
> act properly against Harry, in the same way that it failed to at 
the 
> graveyard; essentially whatever spell Voldie cast at Harry didn't 
> work as it was intended. Given Voldie's performance to date, it's 
not 
> hard to imagine he overlooked this tiresome detail, or more 
> interestingly, that he never knew which phoenix had supplied the 
core 
> to his wand. I've a feeling he'd destroy the wand immediately if 
he 
> had any idea.
> 
> Carolyn

Some really nice ideas in your last paragraph Carolyn. 

In SS/PS Ollivander knows that Harry's wand is the 'brother' of LV's 
but IIRC he doesn't state that *he* sold the wand to its present 
owner (remember, at this point Tom Riddle is yet to come, in CoS). 
We perhaps assume (ass of 'u' and 'me') this, because we haven't 
heard much about other ways for English wizards to get their wands. 
There have, however, been questions about why LV (as TMR) was given 
a wand with Fawkes' feather in the first place. Your post here 
suggests that perhaps DD knew TMR was gong to be VERY powerful, but 
that there was a chance he might go off the rails, so the feather is 
an 'insurance policy' (?). In which case: clever (as usual) DD. 
Alternatively, DD (or almost anyone else of 50ish years ago) acted 
on a prophecy and deliberately gave TMR (LV to come) a powerful, but 
compromised (or counterable) weapon in a Fawkes' feather wand.