Deathly Hallows: Central Theme or Distraction?

andy_mycrib_1987 andy_mycrib_1987 at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 24 21:22:09 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 172300

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "chuck.han" <csh at ...> wrote:
>
> The biggest problem I have with the Deathly Hallows theme is that it
> seems that Dumbledore never intended Harry to garner all three
> objects and become the Master of Death: as Harry states quite
> clearly, Dumbledore intended to die as the final owner of the Elder
> Wand, and it was only by accident that Harry (via Draco) becomes its
> owner.  Yet he wills the Resurrection Stone to Harry and the "The
> Tales of Beedle the Bard" to Hermione.  Could Dumbledore have
> changed his will while slumping on the Lightning Struck Tower?
> Could Dumbledore have known
> that Voldemort would pursue the Elder Wand and was trying to give
> Harry more knowledge about it and its relationship to the other two
> objects?  Would knowledge of the Deathly Hallows help Harry in his
> search for the Horcruxes?


andy_mycrib_1987:

Well Dumbledore did give Harry two of the Deathly Hallow items. He
gave him the Invisibility Cloak during his 1st year at Hogwarts and
he gave him the Resurrection Stone in this book.

As for the Elder Wand, the only way that Harry could have gotten it
from Dumbledore was if Harry defeated Dumbledore (and we all know
that was never going to happen).

Perhaps Dumbledore knew that if Draco was the one to disarm him (even
if Snape killed him since that death was pre-planned), then Draco
would be master of the Elder Wand instead of Snape.

I have no idea how he thought this would help Harry get the Elder
Wand, but I'm just thinking off the top of my head here lol.







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