Harry Killing in HBP - Tactics and Wands

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 132056

Steve: "Isn't this classic movie fare though? The good guys sneak into
the enemy camp and knock out all the guards they meet along the way,
never slitting their throats (because they are the good guys
afterall), never taking or disabling the enemy's weapons (hand full of
sand in the breach works good)..."

Yeah, it is, but I give JKR and Harry a pass on it because I don't
expect JKR to know much about squad level infiltration tactics. It's
just not their bag.

If the good guys are too good to destroy a DE's wand, their priorities
are screwed up. Not doing it could help give evil its victory and
cause a good guy to get killed. Bad decision making.

Steve again:"My theory of 'The Wand Chooses the Wizard' is based in
Magical Harmonics. When you are matched with a wand, you and that wand
are 'vibrating' in a sympathetic magical harmony; at the same magical
'frequency'. <<Snip well-thought out ideas about wands>>

Your ideas and mine about wands are compatible. I've always imagined
that wands focus and direct magical energy. The analogies, imperfect
as they are, would be lenses for focusing and the sounding box on a
guitar for resonant amplifying. Maybe the best comparison is a tuned
antenna. Without a wand, the magic kind of dribbles out weakly all
over instead of being cast in a focused way in the desired direction.
Your ideas really ring true, so it would be necessary for Harry to be
fitted out for a new wand all over again.

BTW, I'd either break the enemy's wand or take it, not try to hide it.
Too easy to Accio.

Jim Ferer