[HPforGrownups] Re: Dual-core wands? - Intuitive Sentience

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 181558

>  >
>  > Carol responds:
>  > ... I agree that wands are sentient, and it may have been
>  > trying him out as its master.

>  bboyminn:
>
>  I just want to address this one small issue. I don't think
>  wands are truly sentient. They are not sitting around
>  composing poems and contemplating deep philosophical mysteries.
>
>  I think they are sentient only in the intuitive or instinctive
>  sense. They are like many lower animals. They don't have
>  conscious thought, they just follow primitive instincts.
>  ... They respond on a low level of instinct.

Kemper now:
'Instinct' is the wrong word.
A good wand 'resonates' with a wizard on some magical note and either
matches the pitch of the note in whatever register or harmonizes with
it.  A taken wand then alters or changes it's magical pitch to be in
harmony with both the original and new wizards.

I don't think that a wand lost in a duel no longer works for the
wizard as well as it use to.  Rather, I think the wand works as well
for both wizards.

Kemper, conjuring up wand lore