I would have kept the Elder Wand

[Katie]

No: HPFGUIDX 175992

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...>
wrote:
>
> I wish JKR had made one change in the book, Harry should have kept the
> Elder Wand; if I were Harry thought of giving it up would have never
> even entered my mind. The Resurrection Stone would be less useful,
> what's the point of bringing people back if they're all pissed off
at you for doing so?
> 
> I was also disappointed to learn in interviews that JKR had taken
away Harry's ability to speak Parseltongue. It seems to me that after
all the stuff she put that poor boy through the least she could do is
let him keep his foreign language ability. And it could be useful in
hid job as an Auror. 
> 
>   Eggplant Gellert Grindelwald
>
***Katie:
Well, Harry lost the Parseltongue because that wasn't really his
ability in the first place. It was on loan from the part of LV's soul
that resided in him. Without LV's soul, no Parseltongue. So, while I
understood why, I agree that it was a bummer. I always liked when he
spoke it - it sort of creeped me out, and I liked it.

As for the Elder Wand, it really reminded me of Gandalf turning down
the Ring of Power in LotR. The Elder Wand was too powerful - it would
always cause tragedy. Harry was too powerful of a wizard to wield it.
He would have become power-hungry and it would have destroyed him, as
it almost did Dumbledore and as it certainly did Grindelwald. It
wasn't evil, but the Deathly Hallows were not good, either. 

No, I wouldn't have like it if Harry had kept it. It would have
defeated the whole point of "power for the sake of power is bad".
Harry wouldn't have been very noble, IMO, had he kept it. 

Katie