Confused about wand rules (plus Lee rocks!)

[Joe]

No: HPFGUIDX 172324

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "prep0strus" <prep0strus at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Thought the book was good, aside from the slow camping period, but I
> am confused about some of the new rules regarding wands.
> 
> So, a wand (specifically the elder wand) can change mastery if you 
a)
> slice the owner's throat while they're sleeping, or b) defeat the
> owner in battle, even if you defeat them with a simple expelliarmus
> spell and they're not even using the wand?  That's what I get from
> draco getting control of the wand from dumbledore, and then harry
> getting it from draco.  But the part I have a difficult time with
> is... why didn't voldemorte gain control when he 'killed' harry?  I
> think that was as much a defeat as draco gave dumbledore and harry
> gave draco, if not more.
> 

The whole getting control of the wand by disarming someone of a 
differnt wand bugged me, too, and I was thinking right after Harry 
decided to re-bury the Elder Wand with DD that if Harry is walking 
down Diagon Alley one day with his own wand in his hand and someone 
uses Expelliarmus on him (saying "Just joking, mate.", they can then 
go to Hogwards and pull the Elder Wand from DD's cold dead hands and 
be its master because he had disarmed Harry? Of course if someone 
wanted to do a bit of fan fic about that where the thief went on a 
killing spree and Harry was called to stop him...hmm, maybe I'l do 
that. ;-)

Joe