Book 1 Questions

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 146727

Donna

> > 2.   The Malfoy's are suppose to be "upper crust" in the WW and,
> > according to Draco,"...mother's up the street looking at wands,"
> > (Ch. 5, Pg 77).  Mr. Ollivander states, The wand chooses the 
> > wizard." (Ch. 5, Pg 85).  Is Mrs. Malfoy buying Draco's wand 
while
> > he's being fitted for robes?  Would a wand that did not choose 
the
> > wizard be good enough for the Malfoy's son, considering their
> >  standing in the WW?
> 
> Richard:
> 
> I always saw it as either of two things: Narcissa making sure that 
> Olivander's had wands in stock suitable to someone of the Malfoy's 
> standing, or Narcissa shopping for another wand to go with some 
new 
> robes she may have purchased.  After all, there is nothing in the 
> books that indicates that there can be only one wand for each 
> wizard, and the Malfoy's strike me as folk who would want even 
their 
> wands to be coordinated with their clothes and jewelry.

Magpie:
I've always assumed that JKR just needed a throwaway reference to 
what wizards shop for to explain why this kid was alone and that she 
didn't mean anything by it with regards to Draco's not having a wand 
that was really is.  Symbolically it seems very hard to be grow up 
without one.  But I suspect Neville (and Ron early on) are the only 
kids we should really think of as using someone else's wand.

I figured Narcissa could easily be going on ahead to look at wands 
for possibilities before Draco appears to try them.  She could 
probably tell Ollivander some things about him that he could start 
with.  Draco does say "looking at" instead of "buying."  And you 
could certainly be right that she's looking at other wands as well 
for herself.

It's actually maybe interesting to think of it from the pov of HBP 
where Narcissa is with Draco while he gets fitted for robes and the 
first thing we hear him say is that he's not a child and can shop by 
himself.  He may felt the same way then and they indulged him by 
finding something else to do for a while.  (Mostly he just needed to 
be alone with Harry dramatically.)

-m