CHAPDISC: DH24, The Wandmaker

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183636

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:

> I haven't had time to read the chapter myself, so I'm taking 
> Zanooda's word that Harry didn't know whose wand he was using and 
> that it wasn't significant to him. 


zanooda:

Thank you for your trust :-)! It goes like this: "He then felt in his
pocket for a wand. There were two in there. He had forgotten, lost
track; he could not now remember whose wands these were; he seemed to
remember wrenching them out of someone's hand. He selected the shorter
of the two, which felt friendlier in his hand and pointed it at the
rock" (p.481 Am.ed.) Later Harry asked Ollivander to identify the two
wands (p.493) - he still didn't know which was which.

Earlier, when Harry took the three wands (Draco's, Bella's and
Wormtail's) from Draco, he gave one of them to Ron without knowing
whose it was (p.474), so it means that Harry didn't even know which
two of the three were in his pocket and couldn't consciously choose
not to use Bella's wand.

BTW, you are right to trust me about the DH quotes - it so happened
that I had to check two DH translations - the official one and an
amateur one (lots of mistakes in both :-)). I had to compare the
original with both translations sentence by sentence, and believe me,
now I know this book practically by heart :-).