CHAPDISC: DH36, THE FLAW IN THE PLAN.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 185264

Eggplant: 
> Use it or not everybody knows Harry is master of the Elder Wand, so he
> might as well use it to defend himself; and after all Dumbledore did
> good for many years with that wand when he was it's master. I see no
> reason Harry couldn't do the same.
> 

Pippin:
The flaw in your plan, Eggplant, is that everyone knows Harry is the
master of the wand, and therefore he would be no safer with the wand
in his personal possession than  poor Gregorovitch. If you owned a
treasure that people would kill for, would you carry it around with you? 

Dumbledore could use it only because Grindelwald was the only one who
knew that he had it, and Grindelwald wasn't talking. 

There were few duels at high noon in the real Old West -- if you
wanted to kill somebody, you got him in the back with a shotgun. It's
the same with the Elder Wand -- as its legend tells us, most of its
possessors won it by stealth and weren't such idiots as to give the
previous owner a chance to defend himself. If Harry's going to be
stunned or stabbed in his sleep, the defensive capabilities of his
wand are irrelevant. 

Using the  Elder Wand invites arrogance and is just asking for trouble
-- it's  always been better at making enemies than at killing them
off. Unfortunately none of its owners seems to have been terribly
skilled at healing, so I doubt it could fix things that are more
complicated than a broken wand. It won't cure Bill's face or George's ear.

Pippin