Harry as Auror, WAS: Rowling tells all

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No: HPFGUIDX 173342

Leah wrote:
> 
> I am sorry, but I think it might matter.  Draco Malfoy becomes 
> master of the Elder Wand by his 'expelliamus' of DD' s wand on the 
> Astronomy Tower. The Elder Wand is not taken by Draco but buried 
> with DD. Harry takes Draco's own wand from him.  This according to 
> Harry, has made Harry master of the Elder Wand, because he has 
> removed a wand from Draco.    Harry might not be right, he might 
win 
> over VM because this is what VM believes and that slows up his 
> reflexes, but we don't know that.

Lyn: I'm sure this might have been addressed already, in fact it 
might have been a previous post or posts here that helped me figure 
this out in my own head... but I don't think the Elder Wand ever 
recognized the specific wizard called "Draco Malfoy" as its master. 
Draco never took physical possession of the wand, never touched it, 
so the Elder Wand never knew Draco as the wizard who had defeated its 
previous master. What it did know, was that its previous master 
(Dumbledore) had been Disarmed by a spell cast with the hawthorn wand 
that belonged to Draco. So the person it recognized as its master was 
not "Draco Malfoy" but "the holder of the hawthorn wand that disarmed 
Dumbledore." Had Draco disarmed Dumbledore and immediately taken 
physical possession of the wand, the wand would then have equated 
Draco himself with "the owner of the hawthorn wand" - but that never 
happened. So the Elder Wand only knew that its true master was the 
holder and presumed owner of the wand that had been used to win it, 
but did not yet associate that holder with any particular wizard.

(I'm thinking there's something here to do with the same kind 
of "flesh memory" that came up with the Snitch that Dumbledore left 
Harry.)

Harry then took Draco's hawthorn wand and proceeded to use it for the 
rest of the story - and when he met LV in the final duel, the Elder 
Wand recognized him as its master because he was using the same wand 
that had disarmed Dumbledore, which was the only way it could 
recognize its true master at that point. It recognized the wand 
first, and then gave its allegiance to the wizard using it. Harry 
succeeded in both disarming LV of the Elder Wand *and* taking 
physical possession of it, thus EW now recognizes the touch of one 
particular wizard, Harry Potter. That's what makes "Harry Potter" 
master of the Elder Wand, instead of its master being just "the 
holder of the wand that defeated Dumbledore."

Well, it makes sense to me, anyway. :)

Lyn