leaky poll -- wands

tonihollifield tonisan9 at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 30 17:25:19 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 157633

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "amsmith422" <amsmith422 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> > Carodave:
> > I think there will be a tie-in between the importance of the
> > wand/wizard connection, and the disappearance of Ollivander.
> There
> > has to be some significance to the fact that Neville was one of
> the
> > last to purchase a wand prior to Ollivander's disappearance.
> >
> >
> 
> Anna:
> I also think there is an important reason for Ollivander's
> disappearance..We know two important things. 1. The wand chooses the
> wizard and 2. Voldemort and Harry's wands do not work properly when
> turned on one another.  So we have to ask:  If Harry is the only
> person who can kill Voldermort why would Voldemort's "twin" wand
> choose Harry?  This has puzzled me since I read the scene in GOF
> where the wands connect and then when Dumbledore explained whey they
> didn't work against one another like they should.  How is Harry to
> defeat him if his wand is not going to work properly?  I think
> Ollivander was taken and made to create a new wand for Voldemort; or
> went into hiding to prevent just that from happening.  I also think
> it will come down to Harry having to learn "wandless" spells.
> Anna
>

Toni now:  (coming out a seriously long period of lurkdom...)

While Harry and Voldemort's wands don't work against each other if 
both are firing off spells at the exact same moment (as was the case 
with Voldemort's AK and Harry's Expelliarmus in the graveyard), 
Voldemort was able to use his wand against Harry, in general, when he 
cast both the Cruciatus curse and the Imperious curse on him.  While 
I agree that they don't work "properly" against each other, in the 
limited circumstance of both casting spells at the exact same time, 
it's not as if they don't work at all.

I always put down the fact that Harry's wand chose him and another 
part of the connection Voldemort forged when he AK'd him.  

Toni (back to lurkdom...)  :-)  









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