The Pig to be Slaughtered

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 172746

rowena_grunnionffitch wrote:

>   I don't think that's quite right. DD himself says he intended Snape 
> to have the Elder Wand, and is disapointed it didn't work out that way, 
> (Kings Cross Station chatper). Personally I find this rather touching 
> evidence both of DD's trust in Snape, leaving him something so powerful 
> and perilous, and his concern for him. Maybe he hoped with the Elder 
> wand Snape might manage to survive the War.
>

Neri:
That may have been Dumbledore's original intention (although he may be
lying about it. We no longer have any guarantees that Dumbledore isn't
lying to Harry). But that apparently had changed because Dumbledore's
portrait didn't warn Snape that he was not the owner of the wand, nor
that Voldemort was after it. 

This makes me realize about another gaping hole in the DH plot:
Apparently it had never occurred to Dumbledore's portrait, despite
knowing all about the Hallows and owning the Elder Wand for many
years, that Draco disarming him on the tower means that Draco is now
the true owner of the Wand. The dangers as well as the chances in this
were stupendous: if at any point during the year Voldy would decide to
kill Draco, or even just to disarm him, he would have become the true
owner of the Elder Wand. If someone else had disarmed Draco, say
Crabbe or Goyle or Bellatrix, that someone would have become the true
owner. OTOH, Draco was at Hogwarts most of the year, under Snape's
full control as a headmaster and Voldemort's right hand. So all the
portrait had to do was telling Snape to disarm Draco. If the portrait
wanted the wand passed to Harry rather than Snape it would have been a
bit more complicated than that, but still quite doable.

But apparently Dumbledore's portrait hadn't realized in almost a year
what Harry realized in just an hour or two. Of course, we may suppose
that the memory or brain power of the portrait wasn't equal to that of
the original, but that just makes Snape taking orders from him even
more chilling. 


Neri