Deathly Hallows: Central Theme or Distraction?

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 173719

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at ...> 
wrote:
>
> On the other hand, Harry holds the Hawthorn wand that
> once defeated the Elder's great master in a surprise attack. That
> attack is all the memory the Elder wand has of Dumbledore's end, by
> the time it is reunited with DD he is gone, along with his magical
> trace, for all the elder wand knows the Hawthorn wand is its new
> champion, it has no way of knowing any more. 
> 
> When Harry uses the Hawthorn wand against the Elder wand, The Elder
> wand recognises the magical instrument that had subdued it before, 
and
> moreover it recognises that the wizard using it was the self same 
the
> wizard that it had **killed** in a recent battle. This is an
> opportunity that the wand could not resist. Not only had this 
wizard
> taken control of the last wand to defeat the Elder, but he had also
> overcome the Elder wand's power by surviving it's lethal spell in a
> direct hit. If a wand's desire is to learn from the Wizard, then no
> wand in the position of the Elder wand could resist the Magical 
carrot
> Harry was dangling under it's nose. 
> 

Allie:

I like your explanation much better than Harry's explanation.  It's 
the WAND it recognizes, not the fact that Harry disarmed Draco.  How 
would the elder wand know that Harry, unseen, defeated its "true" 
master, Draco, when the wand was possessed by a third party at the 
time?  

Bravo!