Wand Lore / Luna / Alchemy

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 181682

> a_svirn:

  Harry because he already hated Snape with passion and would likely 
want to avenge Dumbledore's death. 

Pippin:
But no matter how great his desire for vengeance, Harry is not a
killer. Dumbledore already knows this, specifically because Harry did
not even try to kill Sirius or Pettigrew, and in general because he
believes killing is much harder than innocent people think.


a_svirn:
 Dumbledore made  sure that Harry would be distracted from the
Horcruxes, and turn to  the Hallows instead.  

Pippin:
Huh?  Dumbledore made sure that Harry would not
pursue the Hallows until he understood them, so that Harry
would not go after the wand and would not achieve the stone
until he understood its proper use. How do the hallows
distract Harry from the pursuit of the horcruxes? Is there
ever a point in canon where Harry turns aside from a known
horcrux in order to secure a hallows? 

 
> > Pippin:
> By Voldemort's own logic, Dumbledore himself 
> > could not  have been master of the wand, so it wouldn't
> > mattered who had defeated him, and killing Gregorovitch should
> > have made Voldemort master of the wand. 
> 
> a_svirn:
> I do not follow this logic. Voldemort knew very well that Dumbledore 
> won the wand's allegiance when he defeated Grindenwald. 

Pippin:
He knew, but being Voldemort, he put two and two together and got
five.

"The Elder Wand belongs to the wizard who killed its last
owner. You killed Albus Dumbledore. While you live, Severus, the Elder
Wand cannot truly be mine." -- Voldemort, DH ch 32

Dumbledore could not have anticipated that Voldemort would
think he had to kill Snape in order to secure mastery of the wand,
because even if Snape had been master of the wand, it should have been 
obvious that  it wasn't necessary to kill him, only defeat him. All
Grindelwald had done to become  master of the wand after he had seized
it  was stun Gregorovitch, not kill him. 

Pippin