Dual-core wands? - Intuitive Sentience

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 181561

--- , Kemper <iam.kemper at ...> wrote:
>
> >  >
> >  > 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
>

bboyminn:

Oh, I absolutely agree and have written as much many times.
But I am discussing the nature and level of intelligence 
(sentience) of a wand, and you are discussing the mechanism
by which a wand operates.

Some here, in discussing the nature of a wands sentience,
are discussing wands as if they were intelligent thoughtful 
beings, that is what I'm disputing. Wands are not whiling away
their time contemplating deep philosophical concepts. They
are not pondering politics or composing poetry. They are not
making moral judgments. They are not sentient in the 
'intelligent' sense, but the do have an instinctive ability 
to respond to the world around them and to events in that world.

Hence, Harry's wand was able to act of its own accord, but
did so without thought or contemplation. It was simply an
instinctive defense mechanism in response to external stimuli.  

But I agree that the mechanism by which the sentience reveals
itself is based on some sort of magical resonance or harmony. 
The wand choses the wizard because it senses a sympathetic 
resonance between them. 

Now I don't believe that there is one and only one wand for
a wizard. We already know several wizards have had more than
one wand. So, there are probably many many wands whose
resonance is in the general area of a given wizard. Likely,
Harry could use Ron or Hermione's wand on loan, and do a 
fair job of it. But the other wands he tried that were 
less effective, the Snatchers wand, were probably way way out
of the harmonic resonance range of Harry. 

I truly conquered and captured wand will probably 'tune'
itself to its new master. Though I suspect the 'tuning' 
is never complete. A wand that truly chooses a wizard is
going to be more harmoniously in tune than a wand that must
bend itself to the new master. 

Keep in mind that the Elder Wand is an extremely exception
and powerful wand, and as such is more able to tune itself
to a new master. Plus, it has had centuries of practice.

Just a few thoughts.

Steve/bboyminn