CHAPDISC: DH24, The Wandmaker-The Elder wand
zanooda2
zanooda2 at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 12 23:12:59 UTC 2008
No: HPFGUIDX 183675
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, SnapesSlytherin at ... wrote:
> But why would the allegiance of both wands transfer? I understood
> it that you had to win the allegiance of *each* wand. The Elder
> Wand had no reason to switch its allegiance to Harry. Harry took
> Draco's original wand.
zanooda:
Maybe we are supposed to look at it this way: the Elder wand doesn't
need to be *taken* from its master to change allegiance. Maybe the
only thing it needs is for its master to be defeated. In WW to be
disarmed means to be defeated - a wandless wizard just doesn't stand a
chance. Even if it was some other wand that was taken from its
master, the Elder wand will know and it won't want to stick with a
loser :-). It only respects a winner - the more powerful, the better :-).
> Oryomai wrote:
> I'm also wondering how Voldy thought he would get the
> allegiance
zanooda:
By killing off all the previous owners :-)? Seriously, that's what he
did :-)! He killed Gregorovitch and Grindelwald. I think that when LV
figured out that DD was the next master of the wand and took it from
his grave he believed that the wand was his, because DD was killed on
his orders and because he (LV) "removed it (from the tomb) against its
last master's wishes" (p.742). I suppose he thought this was enough,
but when the wand didn't work for him as well as it should have, he
decided, for good measure, to kill also Snape. He probably didn't know
the details of what happened on the tower, or he would have killed
Draco as well.
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