Wandlore and more

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 185338

Kemper wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/185294>:

<< Dumbledore tells Harry that Inferi are created by Dark Wizards. I'm
going ahead and assuming he also means that a Dark Wizard killed the
people who are the corpses who doing the bidding of same Dark Wizard. >>

I think a Dark Wizard with the Inferius spell can turn any relatively
fresh corpse into an Inferius unless it has been somehow magically
protected. That must be part of the normal wizarding burial ritual,
altho' it wasn't pointed out to us at DD's funeral because Harry
didn't know about it. 

Still, I agree with your conclusion that Voldemort personally murdered
a lot of people.

<< Many Muggle serial killers can only become aroused in the act of
hurting/murdering another human being. I can see Voldemort in the same
dark light. >>

In DH, Rowling actually described how Voldemort feels when killing.
This is in chapter 17: "And he was gliding along, that sense of
purpose and power and rightness in him that he always knew on these
occasions ... Not anger ... that was for weaker souls than he ... but
triumph, yes ... " It's not sex.

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/185297>:

<< How much did the evil will of the wand itself flame young Gellert's
lust for power and violence? >>

Very good point.

I had previously said << there is some strong magic involved and
eventually [the Elder Wand] will wind up in the hand of its current
master >> and Carol replied in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/185303>:

<< Then why didn't it somehow end up in Draco's hands? it stayed
buried with Dumbledore until Voldemort blew up the tomb and 
stole it. >>

Because the Elder Wand viewed Draco as a wimp and was in no hurry to
join him.'Eventually' can be a long time.

<< Cadmus should have been the brother who sowed discord (as Ignotus
is the "unknown" or hidden brother) and still puzzling over the
symbolic significance of Antioch >>

I think she should have named them Invictus, Orpheus, and Aidoneus.

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/185312>:

<< Moreover, even wands that know the person who is trying to use them
is not their master don't perform consistently. Ron's performance with
Charlie's wand is no better but no worse than the average first-year's. >>

Bad example. Ron WAS the new master of 'Charlie's old wand', mastery
having passed by gift.