How did Dumbledore Win the Duel?

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 175849

-- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at ...> wrote:

> 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
>

Perhaps DD used "wingardium leviosa" on a baseball bat and whacked 
Grindelwald on the head with it, a la Harry, Ron, and the troll in 
PS.  :)  Due to the fact that he was now unconscious, Grindelwald 
then DROPPED the Elder Wand, and Dumbledore accio'd it.  

Allie 
(who is American, but reads this forum frequently enough that it's 
automatic for her to call the first book Philosopher's Stone)