Wand Lore / Colin Creevey / Dennis Creevey / Harry: Bad Guy? / That Crucio

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183685

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at ...> wrote:
 
> I objected to Ollivander saying that. I had previously objected to 
> Hermione telling Harry that about the blackthorn wand. Harry and 
> Hermione have strong magic power, but Harry can't get results from 
> the blackthorn wand and Hermione has trouble with Bellatrix's wand 
> because those wands are So Far out of tune with them. 


zanooda:

I agree with this idea in general, I just want to say that 
Hermione's "trouble" with Bella's wand seems to be more of a 
psychologic nature to me. In Harry's case his initial incompatibility 
with the blackthorn wand was obvious - we witnessed him try and fail 
to cast very simple spells. 

As for Hermione, she only *said* that the wand was giving her 
trouble, but she was never actually shown to fail to cast a spell. On 
the contrary, she used Bella's wand very efficiently at Gringotts and 
later at Hogwarts. She even dueled with Bella using Bella's own wand, 
and quite successfully (whose wand did Bella take :-)?

What I want to say is that if Harry's problem with the blackthorn  
wand is, as you say, a compatibility problem, Hermione's problem 
seems to be a psychological problem (the wand being Bellatrix's 
etc.). Either that, or the connection grows stronger with time ("You 
just need to practice" :-)). We were also not shown if 
Harry's "relationship" with the blackthorn wand improved over time. 
Maybe it did!

I believe that Hermione's affinity to Bella's wand was not as weak as 
she claimed - her original wand even had the same core, iirc. The 
proof is that the wand served Hermione well at Gringotts and at 
Hogwarts, despite the fact that she didn't won it from Bella 
personally. JMO :-).