Dumbledore the Godfather - Elder Wand

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 174031

---  "pair_0_docks" <pair_0_docks at ...> wrote:
>
> > >>Carol:
> >> <snip>
> >> DD had tried to disable the Elder Wand via Snape
> >> so that LV couldn't use it against Harry (or 
> >> anyone). << <snip>
> 
> 
> pair_0_docks:
> 
> I'm still confused...so had Snape disarmed/killed DD
> on his orders the E. Wand wouldn't have worked? Why 
> wouldn't Voldy have just then still killed Snape 
> under the theory that he was the Master of the
> Wand and been right?
> 
> How could DD not have seen that he was ultimately 
> putting a bulls-eye on Snape?
> 
> pair_0_docks
>

bboyminn:

Simple... at that stage of the game, Voldemort does
not know about the Elder Wand or the Legend of the
Three Brothers. 

If Snape is in control of the Elder Wand, and Voldemort
still knows nothing about it, then Dumbledore can
be reasonably assured the wand will never be used against
Harry.

It is only when Voldemort finds out about the Twin
Cores,  that he realizes there is a problem. Then
when a borrowed wand fails; he senses an even bigger
problem. Only then did he seek out the most powerful
wand of all; Dumbledore's Elder Wand. Though of course
he doesn't yet know that Dumbledore has it.

So, I think the plan was for Snape to say he didn't 
know what happened to the wand. That it was either
buried with Dumbledore or turned over to Dumbledore's
family or amoung Dumbledore's artifacts at Hogwarts. 
So, that would lead Voldemort on a wild goose
chase, searching for that which was right under his
nose. 

True, at some point he may have suspected that Snape
was the Master of the Wand because of his defeat of
Dumbledore, but being the Master is irrelevant unless
you have access to the wand. As long as Snape kept it
hidden, there wasn't much Voldemort could do. 

Also, since Snape never really intended to captured the 
wand from Dumbledore, he couldn't be his true Master.
In an odd way, Dumbledore gave Snape the Wand the 
same as Harry might hand his wand to Ron and ask him
to hold it. That doesn't constitute a capture or 
defeat. 

Just a few thoughts.

Steve/bboyminn