Mistakes made in Deathly Hallows? The Elder Wand

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 181513

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bdclark0423" <bdclark0423 at ...>
wrote:

> O also make another point, a wizard could use any instrument for 
> channeling magic, it's just usually wands serve best.


zanooda:

Oh, I thought that by "any instrument" Ollivander meant "any wand".
Kind of like "you can do magic with any wand, but if there is a
certain affinity between the wand and the wizard, the results are
better". I'm not a native speaker, so now you confused me a little. I
never heard about anything else except wands being used to do magic in
Potterverse :-).


> bdclark wrote:

> So, I think now that the Elder Wand being unbeatable should be
> considered total myth and in general it is not the wand that makes
> the wizard.


zanooda:

I agree with that, but still, the Elder wand seems to be more powerful
 than regular wands - it can do things they can't (to repair an
unrepairable wand, for example). I wonder if the Elder wand's old age
adds to its power. We usually see wands that only have one owner, two
at most (Neville and his father, Ron and Charlie etc.) The Elder wand
is ancient and it changed so many owners, some of them powerful
wizards - it must have learned a thing or two from them :-).