Power of the Elder Wand

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 178990

sdcjjack wrote:
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> When I read that the master of the Elder Wand could not be defeated,
I wondered how DD defeated Grim and gained control of the Wand? Was
Grim not wielding the Wand in their battle?

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Carol responds:
I assume mean Grindelwald. In any case, the Elder Wand legend is not
entirely true. (For example, the brothers certainly didn't receive the
wands from Death himself and it's doubtful that the third brother wore
the Invisibility Cloak all his life to hide from Death/death.) Maybe
the master of the Elder Wand can't be killed, at least by a spell from
another wand, while he's wielding it, but he can certainly be caught
offguard and disarmed against his will, as Draco's disarming of DD
shows. So maybe, at a point when GG was contemplating some
sophisticated move, DD hit him with a simple Expelliarmus,
simultaneously ending the duel and becoming master of the wand. GG
would certainly have had to concede defeat at that point, being
wandless, and could have been arrested by a waiting force of European
Aurors. At any rate, Grindelwald was certainly wielding the wand or DD
could not have become master of it.

Carol, wondering whether the part about the Elder Wand having no core
is true