Wandlore and more

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 185354

> > a_svirn wrote:
> 
> > Then again, this speculation provides us with a perfect 
> > opportunity to blame Harry's use of the unforgivables on 
> > all sorts of dark powers his wand may have imbibed from 
> > its twin. Convenient, eh?  
> 
> 
> zanooda:
> 
> Harry only managed to cast successful Unforgivables in DH, when he 
was
> using Draco's wand, not his own. His previous attempt to "Crucio"
> Bellatrix with his own wand was unsuccessful. I don't think that it
> was Draco's wand that made Harry use Unforgivable curses, but maybe 
it
> was easier for Harry to cast a successful curse with a wand that
> already did it a few times, like Draco's. 
> 
> I'm not sure that Draco ever used Imperius curse (maybe on 
Rosmerta),
> but he definitely crucio'ed a few people, so the knowledge of the
> curse would be stored inside his wand. I don't blame Harry's use of
> Unforgivables on Draco's wand - actually, I don't blame Harry for
> using the curses at all :-), I just think that maybe the wand made 
it
> technically easier for Harry.

a_svirn:
You are right; his previous attempts were rather amateurish. Still, 
we were talking about intent rather than skill. Was the Elder Wand 
responsible at least in part for Voldemort's lust for power and 
violence? I don't believe there is any evidence of that. Certainly, 
Draco did not torture people with any degree of enthusiasm. (In fact, 
I wonder how he managed that at all when he was so queasy all the 
time.)

Concerning this thorny question of the wand-lore, there is another 
thing I don't understand – the universal disdain for the Expeliarmus. 
So much so, that it became Harry's "signature move" as Lupin put it. 
At least stun if you are too soft to kill, don't do such over-polite 
stuff like disarming people, he admonished. All serious people in the 
books don't bother with disarming; the only ones who ever did so were 
Snape, the Trio and Draco. Yet, by disarming you supposedly break the 
wand's allegiance to its master (and how did Snape get round that 
one, by the way?), surely not something to be held in contempt. 
Haven't Lupin done his homework as DADA teacher? I'd say it is 
certainly a better option than Stunning – this way you not only gain 
a short-term advantage, but impair your adversary in a long term – 
until they get another wand, that is.
a_svirn.