deathly hallows and the wands.

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No: HPFGUIDX 175903

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "e_jobe" <e_jobe at ...> wrote:
>
> I AM SO CONFUSED!!! I just finished "Deathly Hallows" and there are so
> many wands in this story I can't keep track. I understand that
> Voldemort stole the Elder Wand from Dumbledore's tomb and I think I
> understand why it won't work for him. But what I don't get is that in
> the final battle Harry says that he stole the Elder Wand from Draco
> and that that makes him the master of it, but at the same time he is
> holding another wand which he says he stole from Draco. I just do not
> understand. Please explain. Thanks.
> Eric
>
Juli:
Dumbledore came to posession of the Elder Wand in the duel between him 
and Grindewald in 1945, as he won the duel he won the wand. Grindewald 
had taken the wand from Gregorvich (sp?) the Bulgarian wand maker.

In HBP, during the scene on top of the astronomy tower, right after DD 
and Harry had returned from their Horcrux hunt, Draco disarmed DD, 
therefore he came to ownership of the Elder Wand.

In DH, when Harry & Co are taken to the Malfoy manor by the snatchers, 
HArry overtakes Draco 'stealing' his wand, the Hawthron wand. Then 
Harry comes to posession of both the Elder Wand and Draco's Hawthrone 
wand.

Voldemort believing that since Snape had killed Dumbledore, he would be 
master of the Elder Wand, he was wrong of course. Two reasons: One, 
Draco had disarmed DD first. Second, Snape didn't 'kill' DD, he ended 
his life, but not to defeat him, it was to 'save' him.

At this point Harry is the master of three wands: his own Phoenix Wand, 
Draco's Hawthron wand, adn the Elder Wand. Sure his Phoenix wand is 
broken at the moment, but when he fixes it using the Elder Wand, he's 
got the alliegance of three wands, all of them would work perfectly for 
him.

Juli