CHAPDISC: DH24, The Wandmaker

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183644

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mookilie2003_1" 
<mookilie2003_1 at ...> wrote:

> I'm confused about how Harry was able to kill Voldemort with 
> what was supposed to be the Elder wand but turned out to be 
> Draco's wand.  


zanooda:

I'm sorry, but I'm confused about what you are saying :-). Draco's wand 
and the Elder wand are two different things, and they certainly didn't 
turned out to be one another. Or did I misunderstand what you wrote? 

Harry took Draco's wand from him at Malfoy Manor and used it ever 
since. LV had the Elder wand, which he took from Dumbledore's tomb. 
These were the two wands Harry and LV used in their last confrontation. 
However, LV was not really the Elder wand's master, Harry was.

When Draco disarmed Dumbledore on the tower in HBP, he became the 
master of the Elder wand, but the wand fell off the tower and Draco 
never took possession of it. He continued to use his own wand, until 
Harry took it from him. 

The book implies that when Harry took Draco's wand by force (disarmed 
him), he became not only the master of Draco's wand, but the master of 
the Elder wand as well, because the Elder wand knew that its master 
(Draco) was disarmed and it switched allegiance from Draco to Harry. I 
agree that this part is not very convincing, but that's what the book 
says :-).

Also, you are not exactly right in saying that Harry killed LV. Harry 
didn't really kill him, it was the Elder wand who recognized its true 
master, Harry, and turned against LV: "Voldemort was dead,killed by his 
own rebounding curse, and Harry stood with two wands in his hand, 
staring down at his enemy's shell" (p.744, Am.ed.)

To round it up: 1. Draco's wand and the Elder wand were two different 
things that had nothing to do with each other, except that at first 
Draco was the master of both and then Harry became one :-), 2. LV was 
killed by the Elder wand, but not by Harry's hand. When Harry 
used "Expelliarmus" in the last confrontation, the Elder wand flew out 
of LV's hand and turned LV's own AK against him. 

That's how I see it all, anyway :-). Sorry again if I misunderstood 
you :-).