LONG collection of DH related thoughts.

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 173729

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "faery_wisdom" <kitnkids at ...> 
wrote:

> You caught the false logic of my reasoning! Were stealing a means 
> to mastery, LV would have become master upon entering DD's tomb. 
> Now I find myself puzzling this further. 

I don't think your logic is false, Kit. LV didn't become the master 
of the wand not because he stole it, but because he stole it from the 
wrong person. When he opened DD's tomb, Draco was the master, not DD, 
that's why it didn't work. 

As for Gregorovich, G-wald not only took the wand, he also stunned 
the wandmaker. Maybe the stunning of the master is enough for the 
wand to consider him "defeated", or maybe just taking the wand 
against his master's will is enough. I agree that all this is rather 
vague :-).

Joe also asked why Neville didn't get burned. I hope he already found 
the answer, because many posters wrote about it, but just in case, in 
short: LV couldn't hurt Hogwarts' defenders anymore, because Harry 
sacrificed himself for them and they were "protected". Harry says to 
LV that "none of the spells you put on them are binding"(p.738).

Hope it helps,
zanooda