The Elder Wand (was: CHAPDISC: DH27, The Final Hiding Place)

[mmizstorge]

No: HPFGUIDX 184195

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Mike:
> > It's simple really, Carol. You are looking for cut and dried, 
and 
> > Voldemort was looking for nuanced. You wanted to see "failure", 
but 
> > Voldemort wanted the "legend", wanted the "wonders" revealed.
> 
> Pippin:
> The yew wand did everything its master asked of it. Obviously,
> Voldemort expected the Elder Wand to do *more* than he asked of it.
> Possibly not a realistic expectation, but a real one, nonetheless, 
IMO.
> 
> Pippin
> agreeing to disagree at this point
>

The thing is that we're asked by the author to believe on the one 
hand that Voldemort is unable to sense when one of his Horcruxes 
have been destroyed and yet on the other hand she expects us to 
accept that he is so sensitive as to be able to detect the slightest 
nuances that his magic is 'off' when he's using the Elder wand. It 
isn't believable that Voldemort can be both insensitive AND 
hypersensitive to the subtleties of magic!