Wandlore and more

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 185371


> -m (who still hates the revised wand-lore that wipes out the original)

a_svirn:
There is another confusing thing about this whole wand-mastery 
conundrum. Harry disarmed both Draco and Bellatrix, irrc, but he chose 
Draco's wand because it felt "friendlier". Yet, Belatrix's wand was 
also won by Harry and by rights should have changed its allegiance to 
him.  But then, how does one master an unfriendly wand? One cannot 
compel it as one would a house-elf, since its allegiance is not 
permanent. Essentially it means that if a wand feels like it, it 
recognises a new master in one who "won" it, but if it doesn't
 well, 
it doesn't. Which rather undercuts the whole idea of "winning the 
allegiance". (And how chivalrous it is to saddle Hermione with a 
decidedly uncooperative wand, whose allegiance she couldn't even 
legitimately claim, incidentally?)  
a_svirn