Spare Wands WAS: Harry Killing in HBP

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 132074

Jim (me): "Is there a reason a wizard can't do this [get a second
wand] for a spare?"

Laura: "You know, this just seems like common sense, doesn't it?
<snip> I  wonder if having two wands is sort of taboo in WW culture --
kind of  like having two lovers. You can get a new wand if your old
one has  been destroyed or lost, but you can't have two at the same
time.  *ponders* Anyone willing to take me up on this theory?"

If you can't be with the wand you love, love the wand you're with.

SSSusan: "This is a fascinating thought. I wonder WHY it would be
taboo? But you're both right that it would make *sense* to have a
spare, so what would be preventing people from having one?"

SSSusan again: "We didn't hear Harry say how much it cost for his
wand, did we? It may be a fair bit of change, as we know Ron never
reported his broken wand to him mom, in spite of being told by his
teacher(s?) that it needed to be replaced." 

>From SS/PS: "Harry shivered. He wasn't sure he liked Mr. Ollivander
too much. He paid seven gold Galleons for his wand, and Mr. Ollivander
bowed them from his shop."

Money can't be the problem, at least for Harry. It seems Laura must be
close to the truth, or wizards just don't lose their wands often.
Heaven help me if I had to add my wand to the other stuff I lose, like
my keys, phone, and wallet.  I don't have a spare pair of glasses,
even though I should, because there's been once or twice in my life I
would have benefitted from having them.

Now that it's wartime, maybe somebody will think of it.

Jim Ferer