Harry in a dangerous profession?

[hp_fan_2008]

No: HPFGUIDX 181661

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Freeman, Louise Margaret"
<lfreeman at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> My 11 year old and I just finished re-reading DH and I was struck by 
> something in Harry's last conversation with the Dumbledore portrait.
 He 
> said he planned to put the Elder Wand back in the grave, then plan
on dying 
> a natural death, so the power of the wand would be broken.
> 
> But Harry became the master of the Elder Wand by simply yanking Draco's 
> hawthorne wand out of his hand, not by killing or even magically
disarming 
> him.  So, it would seem that if anyone managed to get Harry's phoenix 
> feather wand away from him, they would instantly become the Elder Wand 
> master.  In that case, it would seem that becoming an Auror would be an 
> exceptionally high-risk profession.  Harry's skilled, but does he
really 
> think he can get through an entire career chasing Dark wizards
without being 
> defeated in a duel or disarmed even once?
> 
> Working in the Joke shop might be a lot safer. At the very least he
should 
> hide the Elder Wand in a less obvious place.  Or couldn't he, as the
Elder 
> Wand master, choose to break it? (and bury the pieces with
Dumbledore, like 
> the ballad Hagrid and Slughorn sang at Aragog's funeral?)
> 

hp_fan_2008:

Here's my theory: The Elder Wand recognized Harry as its owner because
it recognized him as the true owner of the hawthorne wand. It could
only recognize him as such since Harry was using the hawthorne wand.
It didn't really have a chanvce to recognize Malfoy - since Maloy
never held the elder wand.I think that if Malfoy had used the elder
wand, and then was defeated in its absence, that would have finished
its power.