Wand Allegiance

grindieloe andie1 at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 13 01:39:27 UTC 2008


No: HPFGUIDX 182027

Wow! It's been a while since I've been on here, but I was listening 
to Deathly Hallows in my car today, and something occurred to me.  I 
figured this was the best place to put my "probably not so original 
and totally already discussed at length without my knowledge" idea 
out there and hope you guys aren't too brutal with the "we've already 
discussed this" responses... :)

With that said, here goes...

Harry constantly complains about the wand that he is forced to use 
after his own was broken accidentally by Hermione.  It does not work 
for him properly; likewise Hermione complains about Bellatrix's wand 
after leaving her own behind at Malfoy Manor.  However, after talking 
with Ollivander and learning about wand allegiance, 
couldn't "winning" a wand be "fixed"?  Could the wands be "tricked" 
into giving allegiances? or do the wands know better?  

Technically, this idea would not have helped Harry, as they did not 
know of the rules of wand allegiance when he was struggling with the 
wand that Ron took from the Snatchers, but I'm going to use this 
example anyway...

Ron "won" the wand from the Snatchers.  So, what's to stop Harry from 
borrowing Hermione's wand and "disarming" Ron while Ron holds the 
Snatcher's wand?  Would the wand have then worked for him and given 
him it's allegiance?  Again, I realize that this is impossible 
because they were not privy to this information at that time; 
however, what about Hermione?

Harry wrestled both Draco's and Bellatrix's wands from Draco, so 
technically, both of those wands had given him their allegiance.  If 
Hermione needed a wand that worked for her, couldn't she have 
borrowed Ron's wand and disarmed Harry while he was using Bellatrix's 
wand; thus "tricking" the wand into giving Hermione it's allegiance 
so it would then work properly for her?  I realize that Hermione 
certainly wouldn't even want allegiance from a wand with such a 
brutal history, but I'm just talking theory here.

Would Bellatrix's wand resist Hermione if they had tried something of 
the sort, knowing that she was a Muggleborn?  Like House Elves, would 
wands automatically adopt the beliefs of their "masters"? 

Just wondering what other well-read HP fans thought about this one...

Andrea :) 





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