Wand allegiance

[michellerogers97]

No: HPFGUIDX 182061

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lealess" <lealess at ...> wrote:

> Could someone explain to me why a wand would not switch
> allegiance from someone who gives himself up to be killed
> to the killer? After all, it wasn't the soul piece that
> decided to let Voldemort kill it. It was Harry. That seems
> a clear defeat to me. Does the wand really care about who
> he allowed himself to be killed for?
<SNIP>


I think some of us are giving this wand a little too much
personification.

" . . . the possessor of the wand must capture it from its
previous owner, if he is to be truly master of it," said
Xenophilius.  DH21

One must merely capture the wand, not be the more powerful
wizard (or witch). The wand's allegiance goes to the guy who
took it - it doesn't care how it was taken - just that it was
and by whom.

michellerogers97