Wand breaking was Harry's bias again, several posts

[P J]

No: HPFGUIDX 141094


Carol:
>BTW, someone in another thread expressed the idea that expelling a
>student necessarily results in having the student's wand broken. Do we
>know that for a fact?


We have two examples in canon that point that way, yes.  First (and the only 
example we have of a student actually expelled) is Hagrid.  He was expelled 
and his wand was broken.  Then in OOtP the first letter Harry gets from the 
MoM states that he's been expelled from Hogwarts for breaking the decree of 
underage sorcery and that ministry representatives would be calling at his 
place of residence shortly to destroy his wand (Pgs 21-22 Scholastic).

It appears that any crime worthy of expulsion is also worthy of wand 
breaking.  I can understand this as you wouldn't want a untrained wizard 
loose in the country with a wand!  Some of the trained ones are scary 
enough.  :-)

The fact that he'd already received an official warning for the same offense 
is the reason given for the hearing before the MoM.


PJ