Hagrid's wand (was Re: My thoughts on some things.......)

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 148596

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Peg DiGrazia <pegdigrazia at ...> 
wrote:
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> Jen D:
> <<Even broken wands perform, just not realiably. Remember Ron's 
sad 
> broken wand in COS? Backfired all over Lockhart, luckily.
> Jen D.(wishing for a wand as she looks at that sink full of 
> dishes...)>>
> 
> 
> Peg now:
>   Ron's broken wand was a disaster, but I was wondering last night 
if he didn't do a very good job when he patched it up with Spell-o 
Tape, maybe making it function much worse.  (Ron's not so great with 
the details, and I would imagine if you didn't line the break up 
correctly when you patched your wand back together, you might have 
problems.  Like gluing the arm of your Hummel figurine on backward 
after it's broken off.)  Hagrid's pieced-together wand seems to 
function fairly normally, although he did only manage to give 
Dudders a pig's tail when he intended to turn him entirely into a 
pig.  His excuse was that Dudley was close enough to being a pig 
that the spell didn't work, but maybe it was actually because of his 
broken wand...

Jen here again,
I am wondering if it has to do with how badly the core is damaged. 
Don't have my COS handy but I don't remember a lot of detail about 
it. If the powers that be took a bit of pity on Hagrid, perhaps they 
didn't damage the core. Ron was in a car accident and maybe his 
sustained much worse damage or as you mention, perhaps the repair 
really put it out of whack. I don't think Hagrid is bad at magic per 
se, but he doesn't seem to be precise in some instances. I am very 
glad the pig thing didn't work out as he wanted because that would 
have surely gotten him in a world of trouble on 2 accounts. First, 
doing magic on a muggle got Morphin (I always want to say "Mighty 
Morphin Power Rangers" at his name and wonder what JKR was thinking 
when she named him)in trouble for sure and 2, he's not supposed to 
be using magic at any rate! But I am glad to know he can use and 
does use magic when necessary, like putting his house fire out.
Jen D, getting ready to perform "magic" in the kitchen. Ha!
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>   Peg
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