Why refuse the Elder Wand? (was: Harry as Auror)

[Beatrice23]

No: HPFGUIDX 173241

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Ken Wrote:
> 
> > Harry is the master of the Elder Wand.
> > If Harry really meant to end its power 
> > by dying a natural death, undefeated by
> > another wizard, then he simply cannot
> > become an auror. The risk of losing his
> > wand in a confrontation is just too great. 
> 
> You know, that is the one and part of JKR's wonderful story that 
just
> doesn't make sense to me. If you don't like the Elder Wand then just
> snap it in two; but why would you even want to destroy it? That wand
> served Dumbledore well for half a century, I am certain that wand 
did
> a lot of good in that time, and I see no reason it would be a less
> faithful servant to Harry. Call me the reincarnation of Voldemort if
> you want to but it would only take me about one heartbeat to decide 
to
> keep it!  Power is not always a bad thing; as a matter of fact I
> rather like power.
> 
> Eggplant
>

Beatrice: It is like Dumbledore says at one point in the series 
people have a tendency to want what is bad for them.  As the wand is 
so powerful, it is inevitable that someone or several someones will 
try to overpower Harry inorder to master the wand.  Not only does it 
make Harry a marked man - something that he has been since an infant -
 but imagine that wand in the hands of Draco Malfoy or someone like 
him.    True Dumbledore used it for good and so would Harry, but it 
is better that it pass into nothingness than be mastered by one who 
would continue its bloody legacy.