[HPforGrownups] Why the wand worked for Dumbledore (was:Re: inconsistency?)

[Deborah Krupp]

No: HPFGUIDX 172744

                                  Lindsay" <frihar at ...> wrote:
 >
 > Still catching up on all posts-- forgive if this is a repeat,
 > but how on earth did DD beat Grindelwald in the duel if Gr had
 > an _unbeatable_ wand??? Isn't that what they say the whole point
 > was of the elder wand: It can't be eaten in a duel?
 
 Kim:
 
 Grindelwald was not the true master of the Elder wand, because he did not win it, he stole it.  So, it was not all powerful for him.  Just like it was not all powerful for Voldemort.   I'm still trying to figure out how it became Dumbledore's true wand.  I'm sure he won it from Grindelwald, but since Grindelwald stole it, things can't be that simple.
 
 Deborah:
Dumbledore tells Harry at King's Cross:  "I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it.  I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it."  Reminiscent of how Harry got the stone from the Mirror of Erised, no?
Dumbledore goes on to tell Harry that the cloak never worked properly for Dumbledore, as it does for Harry, because in his possession, it was ill-begotten.
 
     
         



       
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