The Elder Wand not working for Voldemort? Say what?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 181734

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Show me the evidence that the wand wasn't performing for him and maybe
> I'll change my mind. As it is, his complaint just seems thrown in and
> groundless, a mere excuse to murder Snape (who's done nothing wrong
> that Voldemort knows about--if he did know, of course, he wouldn't
> need the Elder Wand excuse!).
> 

Pippin:
Perhaps Voldemort expected the Elder Wand to blast through the
protections he had put around the locket horcrux, simply vanish the
basin potion, for example, instead of needing to do whatever it was
that turned it clear. The thing with Voldemort is that his paranoid
tendencies are  at odds with his egomania. Sometimes he imagines
threats that aren't real, but sometimes he ignores real threats
because he imagines that nothing can hurt him. The tension between
these two tendencies makes his actions tough to predict. 



Pippin