Harry, keep the wand you idiot! (was: A Flaw in the Plan)

[eggplant107]

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"Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> I'm confused, too, and am only 
> speculating as to why DD wanted 
> Snape to keep the Elder Wand 

My theory is that Dumbledore really didn't want that wonderful wand's
power to be lost to the world forever, and neither do I. Yes, anything
that powerful will be a bit scary, but I think destroying such a
magnificent thing would be a crime as well as an act of cowardice. As
I said before, if I was Harry I would have kept the wand and I
wouldn't have even needed to think about it longer than a heartbeat.

And if I were JKR I would have let Harry keep the wand because it
would make a better story. For once let the thing that has the
potential to change the Status quo survive the end of the story! I
know that breaks with convention, in these sort of stories the law
says that the secret laboratory that contains the secret of life, the
amazing invention that could change the world, the super genius, the
land of the dinosaurs, all are required to blow up at the end leaving
not a trace that they ever existed. Convention dictates that the
destruction be so complete that it's imposable for the hero to
convince anyone that the amazing thing (or person or place or book or
idea) even existed at all; in fact it's so imposable that the hero
doesn't even try to convince anyone that that he has seen something
that could upset their comfortable little idea about how the world
operated. 

If Harry had kept the wand it might have cast a slight cloud over the
happy ending, but so be it. That wand has the potential to do great
things (and remember Oleander said Harry as well as Voldemort had the
potential to do great things) the wand is also a magnet for trouble,
that's why if I were JKR in the epilog I'd have Harry walking with a
slight limp and waving goodbye to his son with "his good hand". I'd
give no explanation of exactly how Harry received those injuries, let
the reader figure it out. 

Eggplant