Tangent: Mr. Ollivander

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 151553

Angie wrote:
> 
> I'd love to think the MOM has hidden him [Ollivander], but I doubt
that they'd have that much insight or foreplanning.  However, I
wouldn't put it past DD to hide him away.
> 
> I'm sure DD knows that LV is getting desperate after the fiasco at 
> the MOM in OOP -- he still doesn't have the prophesy, Harry's still 
> alive, and Harry still has the wand that can "block" LV's (for lack 
> of a better term). I would have thought LV would have attempted to 
> kidnap Ollivander sooner, actually, to have him make another wand.  
> But would a second wand "choose" LV while his other wand is still 
> operable?


Carol responds:
Voldemort's wand is perfectly suited to him, with its yew wood and
Phoenix feather core both symbolizing (earthly) immortality. It's
also, according to Ollivander in SS/PS, extremely powerful. I doubt
that LV would want to substitute some other wand for the one that he
has used to commit so many "great but terrible" deeds.

He would, perhaps, want to kidnap Ollivander to learn how to get
around the "brother wands" effect. Or (less probably) he might wish to
kidnap Ollivander to prevent the next group of Hogwarts children from
having the wands ideally suited to them, a purely psychological move.
 More likely, IMO, Ollivander is being hidden by the Order in
anticipation of some such move. And I rather suspect that he'd be a
good person for Harry to consult about Horcruxes as he seems to be
powerfully magical, extremely knowledgeable, and not entirely averse
to Dark magic.

As for Harry's wand, all Voldemort has to do is destroy it or have
someone else destroy it with, say, a Reductor Curse or something that
sets it on fire. (Not that such a thing will happen, of course, but
Voldie would no doubt consider it a plausible and sensible course of
action.) In the unlikely event that he wants a "fair" fight like the
one in the graveyard, he can lend Harry a DE's wand. But I think he
prefers a defenseless, wandless Harry at this point: First, perhaps,
he would use Legilimency to explore his mind and determine his worst
fears, then Crucio him, then starve and imprison him for awhile, then
torture and kill a few friends in front of him, then, slowly kill him
using something other than a quick, painless AK that might rebound on
the caster. Or, at least, that's what I think Voldie would do at this
point, given his way. It's not at all what I expect to happen, but I'm
not a Dark Lord blinded by the desire for revenge and delusions of
immortality (or misplaced trust in Severus Snape). 

At any rate, if Voldemort cares about the magical significance of the
number seven, he will also care about the immortality symbolism of yew
wood and Phoenix feathers. No new wand for him; I'm betting on it.

Carol