The Elder Wand not working for Voldemort? Say what?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 181722

---  "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> What I want to know is how Voldemort "knew" that the Elder 
> Wand wasn't working for him ...
> 
> Huh? None of it makes any sense. If, indeed, he accomplished
> extraordinary things with the Elder Wand, which seems to work
> for him just as well as his own wand ever did ..., what is 
> Voldemort's problem? What flaw does he see in the Elder Wand? 

bboyminn:

Well, you said it yourself, the new (Elder) wand worked as good
as his old wand. If fact it worked as well as any reasonably
compatible wand would have, and that is the point. It was a
normal conduit for Voldemort's extraordinary magic. But that
is not how the Elder Wand was billed. It was suppose to be
an immensely and extraordinarily powerful wand, and that is
what Voldemort did NOT see - the power of the Elder Wand head
and shoulders above any other wands. 

So, it is not a question of working or not working for him. 
It is like buying a Lamborghini or a Ferrari (fast expensive
cars) and having it drive like a Ford Pinto (cheap low powered
econo-box car). Yes, you can drive it, it acts like a normal 
car, but it would certainly not be living up to it's reputation. 
Voldemort was expecting a super-fast high-performance racing
car, and instead he got a Soccer Mom mini-van. Still in the
right hands a Soccer Mom mini-van can be capable of 
extraordinary things, but it simply never equals a super fast
race car. 

Wands and racing cars; it's all the same.

Steve/bboyminn