CHAPDISC: DH36, THE FLAW IN THE PLAN

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 185268

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Carol responds:
> All I know is that Dumbledore makes it clear that the thing is *not*
> the wholly destroyed soul fragment, which is not on a journey
> anywhere. It doesn't exist. 
> 
>snip>
jkoney65:
thanks for the explanation. While that makes sense now, I certainly 
didn't get that when I read the book the first time (or the second).


 

> jkoney65:
> (or perhaps it's a male trait) but the next dark wizard is going to 
go
> after Harry at some point. It may be a sports phrase but to be the
> best you have to beat the best.
> 
> Carol responds:
> 
> Maybe. But Harry would be utterly stupid to use the Elder Wand to
> fight them because that would only fan the flame--and one Dark 
Wizard
> could kill him from behind while he fought another. The whole idea 
is
> to keep the wand inactive and inaccessible. And, as an Auror, he's
> going to be facing Dark Wizards, anyway, whether he's the master of
> the Elder Wand or not.

jkoney:
But if Harry became master of the elder wand by taking Draco's 
regular wand, then wouldn't anyone who beat Harry's holly wand become 
master of the elder wand?

So either Harry has to use it or make sure it's hidden where no one 
would find it. I'm not sure replacing it into DD's tomb is hiding it 
well enough. If he is going to do that shouldn't he just snap the 
wand now? That way no one could be its master.



> 
> Carol responds:
> Oh, I'm familiar with that mentality, but I don't see any Dark 
Wizards
> of either Lucius Malfoy's generation or Harry's who have either the
> courage or the skill to face Harry, the one who beat Voldemort
> (through luck and love and the Elder Wand). With all the DEs killed 
or
> safely in a more secure Azkaban, he really won't have much work. A
> Dark Wizard of the caliber of Voldemort or Grindelwald doesn't come
> along very often. 
>snip> 
> Carol, still smiling over "not evil enough"

jkoney:
There may be no one we saw. But Voldemort was rising as the last dark 
lord was falling. Who can say that there isn't someone else? I 
believe it makes more sense to assume there is going to be another 
one because there always seems to be another one around the corner. 
Constant Vigilance!

Jkoney, who is glad he got a smile out of Carol!