[HPforGrownups] Re: I would have kept the Elder Wand

[Christine Maupin]

No: HPFGUIDX 176011

Katie:
 > 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
  Eggplant Gellert Grindelwald:

>Dumbledore used that wand for half a century, and I am convinced that
>wand did one hell of a lot of good in that time. I am also convinced
>that what Dumbledore said was absolutely true, Harry really is a
>better man than Dumbledore; so I can see no reason to think that wand
>would produce inferior results in the next 50 years if Harry used it
>than it had in the previous half century when Dumbledore used it.
 
          
My impression is that Harry gave up the wand to keep out of circulation -- to end its bloody history.
"The bloody trail of the Elder Wand is splattered across the pages of Wizarding history" (p. 412)
"Its history is bloody, but that may be simply due to the fact it is such a desirable object, and arouses such passions in wizards.  Immensely powerful, dangerous in the wrong hands..." (p. 497)
Harry says to Dumbledore's portrait, "If I die a natural death like Ignotus, its power will be broken, won't it?  The previous master will never have been defeated.  That'll be the end of it." (p. 749)

Christy

       
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