Mistakes made in Deathly Hallows? The Elder Wand

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 181504

> Beatrice23:
> Think about this for instance:  If Draco had not 
> disarmed DD, then Snape would have won the wand as DD intended.  BUT, 
> if this had happened then Voldemort would have won the wand when he 
> killed Snape with Nagini, thus Harry could not have defeatedly LV, 
> because LV didn't hesitate or use a spell that was less effective 
> than Harry's spell.

zgirnius:
This is not what Harry claims, in "The Flaw in the Plan". Harry claims 
that because Snape was knowingly doing Dumbledore's will, because he 
and Dumbledore had made an agreement months before, Snape's killing 
would not constitute a defeat. Instead, what Harry claims would have 
happened, is that the wand's power would have died with Dumbledore, and 
no one could ever have been its master again. This is what Harry plans 
to do with the wand himself (not by having someone kill him when his 
end is near, but by the less dramatic method of dying a natural death 
without ever losing the Elder Wand to anyone).

The way Dumbledore's plan was loused up was not that the wrong person 
ended up master (Draco instead of Snape), but that anyone at all did. 
It all worked out anyway because Harry happened to defeat the wizard 
who had defeated Dumbledore.

To me, this makes more sense as the plan, anyway. Dumbledore in "The 
Prince's Tale" indicates on a couple of occasions that he is fully 
cognizant of the danger of Snape's position as a spy. Any plan that put 
the wand in Snape's control, had a decent chance of putting it in 
Voldemort's.