Daedalus / Confiscated Wands

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 183771

Laura W wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/183684>:

<< I was pleased to find the meaning of Daedalus Diggle's name. >>

I didn't know there was such a word as 'daedal', but both it and
Daedalus Diggle were named after Daedalus, the famous artisan of Greek
mythology. He built a robot servant, he built the Labyrinth, he built
a lot of things that seemed like magic, and some king locked him and
his son Icarus into a tower so they couldn't build weapons or defenses
for any the kingdom, and he built wings of shed feathers held together
with wax to fly away. And everyone remembers that Icarus flew too
close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell and drowned in the sea
below. I had kept hoping to hear some reference to Daedalus Diggle
gadgeteering.

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/183701>:

<< How could Bellatrix still have the wand that Ollivander had made
for her decades before? Surely it would have been confiscated when she
was sent to Azkaban? >>

Doesn't that also apply to Lucius's wand, which LV took from Lucius
*after* Lucius was taken out of Azkaban? It seems to me that the
standard practise was that the confiscated wands of the convicts were
NOT broken, but rather stored somewhere. (Was it the Ministry or the
Headmaster who ordered young Hagrid's wand broken, and was this
apparently unusually extreme punishment chosen because he was half-Giant?)

It would make sense for them to be stored in a strong room in the
Department of Magical Law Enforcement area of the Ministry of Magic
building, from which they could be removed by more or less official
channels by members of the new (LV) regime. And from which they could
have been removed, even under the former regime, by influential people
like Lucius Malfoy. Bribe or sweet-talk the Minister to order the wand
delivered to you, or just bribe the lower ranking bloke with the key.

Since the above would make sense, it's probably not what was done.
While they could have stored the confiscated wands in an unlocked
closet at Azkaban, to make it easier for any escapee to reclaim
his/her wand, the events of the story suggest that confiscated wands
were turned over to the convict's next of kin.

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/183747>:

<< Contrast Sirius Black, who escapes *without* his wand. He's
wandless for all of GoF, apparently, and apparently only finds a wand,
perhaps his mother's or father's or an old one of his own, when he
comes to live at 12 GP. >>

Another hint that confiscated wands are given to the next of kin,
Sirius's parents, despite them having disowned him.