Harry in a dangerous profession?

Hagrid aussie_lol at yahoo.com.au
Thu Mar 6 17:13:32 UTC 2008


No: HPFGUIDX 181932

--- Louise lfreeman wrote:
>
> 
> My 11 year old and I just finished re-reading DH ...  He 
> said he planned to put the Elder Wand back in the grave, then plan 
> on dying a natural death, so the power of the wand would be broken.
> 
> But Harry became the master of the Elder Wand by simply yanking 
> Draco's hawthorne wand out of his hand, not by killing or even 
> magically disarming him.  So, it would seem that if anyone managed 
> to get Harry's phoenix feather wand away from him, they would 
> instantly become the Elder Wand master.  In that case, it would 
> seem that becoming an Auror would be an exceptionally high-risk 
> profession.  Harry's skilled, but does he really think he can get 
> through an entire career chasing Dark wizards without being 
> defeated in a duel or disarmed even once?
> 
> ... he should 
> hide the Elder Wand in a less obvious place.  Or couldn't he, as 
> the Elder Wand master, choose to break it? (and bury the pieces 
> with Dumbledore, like the ballad Hagrid and Slughorn sang at 
Aragog's funeral?)

aussie:
Let me guess. Your 11 year old asked you that question. Kids are 
like that.

All the headmasters would have heard that plan of Harry's, and could 
have told their heirs how to get the Elder Wand - and that may have 
occured to Harry.

What if he got Ginny to disarm him to be the rightful owner of the 
Elder Wand? A Quidditch player would be less likely to be dueling 
and loose the Elder Wand to someone else. Harry, being so connected 
to Ginny, could have just had his Phoenix feather wand loaned back 
and use it pretty much as normal.

Harry would have to agree, "Behind every great man, is a witch ... 
with a deadly wand"

aussie





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