Wand Lore / Luna / Alchemy

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 181642

> Carol earlier:
> > > Just how DD intended for Snape to avoid being killed when LV
> discovered that he was the supposed master of the Elder Wand is
> unclear, but he may have been counting on timing--Harry finding and
> destroying the Horcruxes before LV solved the mystery of the Elder
> Wand, obtained it, and realized why it wasn't working for him (which,
> BTW, is absurd--it worked just fine).
> > 
> > a_svirn:
> > That explanation doesn't really work when you consider that he did 
> > everything in his power to distract Harry from the Horcrux Hunt.

Pippin:
I had a brainstorm about this the other day.
Remember the fake wands of GoF? Snape could have convinced Voldemort
that the  no longer functional Elder Wand was  a clever fake.

Then  Voldemort would have been off on a wild goose chase looking for
the "real" EW, safely distracted from Harry's horcrux hunt, which
Harry *was* supposed to pursue, but cautiously, so that Snape would have
time to deliver the sword. We saw what trouble the Trio got into possessing
a horcrux without any means of destroying it. Dumbledore
would have wanted to avoid that. 

 Dumbledore did not believe that any of the horcruxes were hidden at 
Hogwarts, so he wouldn't have wanted Harry to go back there to get basilisk 
fangs, and of course he wouldn't have wanted Harry to use Fiendfyre either. 

As for the memories,  Snape could have led Harry to his bottled 
memories in the same way he led him to the sword, by using his patronus. 
Harry had been taught how to distinguish altered memories from  genuine ones, 
so no worries that he would doubt them after he discovered the source.

Pippin