How did Dumbledore Win the Duel?
Bart Lidofsky
bartl at sprynet.com
Mon Aug 20 00:40:49 UTC 2007
No: HPFGUIDX 175841
Bart:
I'm going to get a bit Sherlockian here: Once you have eliminated the
impossible, what you have left, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
Points I am taking as given (either canon or simple logic):
1) The holder of the Elder Wand cannot be beaten in a magical duel.
2) It's been establshed that wizards, IF PROPERLY PREPARED, cannot be
injured by muggle means (look at the description of real wizards and
witch burnings).
3) It has also been established (for example, Quidditch injuries, the
fistfight with Draco in OOP), that wizards are vulnerable to normal
physical injury if unprepared, although the injuries tend to be trivial
to cure.
4) It's hard to concentrate when someone is whacking your head with a
baseball bat (there is no canon to support this).
5) Magic generally requires concentration, although we have one occasion
where a wand DID act on its own.
So, here is my idea of how DD won the duel with Waldo: He used PHYSICAL
means to disarm him.
Bart
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