CHAPDISC: DH32, The Elder Wand

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 184767

 
> Potioncat:
> It does seem there was a real weak link in the plan. How the heck 
was 
> Snape supposed to tell Harry? A letter? "Dear Harry, please come to 
> my office at Hogwarts. I have something important to tell you." 
Hmm, 
> come to think of it, why couldn't he have contacted Harry with his 
> Patronus?

jkoney65
I'm still not sure why DD or even Snape thought that Harry would 
believe Snape. Other than Voldemort is there anyone Harry hates this 
much?

 

 
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> 
> > jkoney65
> > While I am not a Snape fan, I do believe he had some 
intelligence. 
> I 
> > have no doubt he recognized Dumbledore's wand. This would be like 
> > some guy not remembering that their teacher/collegue drove a '68 
> > Mustang everyday. It's not something that someone with interest 
in 
> > the subject (like magic) would ever forget. Add to it that it was 
> > Dumbledore's wand, the most famous wizard of the era and I don't 
> see 
> > how he could not recognize it.
> 
> Potioncat:
> It's more like recognising that your teacher is now using a 
differnt 
> style pen to grade papers. I'm not so sure how very different a 
wand 
> in hand looks from any other. 
> 
> But, even if Snape knew LV had DD's wand, does Snape know that wand 
> was the Elder wand? The Hallows were so embedded in WW folklore, he 
> may not have beleived it existed.


jkoney65
No, Snape was definitely a fan of magic. Were told he arrived at 
Hogwarts knowing all those dark curses even before he started school. 
With the wand the key instrument he would have always noticed them 
and who carried what.

I doubt that yew, holly, ash, maple, etc all look exactly alike. We 
are never told if they are stained but that would also be a way of 
telling them apart. The more they are polished the more the wood 
grain would stand out and those would definitely be different. 

I know people who can tell you what hand gun someone is holding from 
several feet away (glock, beratta, colt, browning, etc). Something as 
personal as a wand, especially from someone you knew for years would 
stand out completely.

I don't believe he ever knew that DD's wand was the elder wand. He 
probably had heard of the myth and knew that Voldemort was seeking a 
powerful wand but wouldn't have thought the myth existed or that 
Dumbledore would own it. 





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