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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