Wandlore and more

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 185401

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:
>
>  
> > a_svirn:
> > Then why didn't Draco's wand consider itself stolen?
> 
> Pippin:
> Because it knew that Harry had defeated its master, Draco, in 
combat.
> I assume that JKR is riffing on the customs of knighthood, by which
> the victor in  personal combat was entitled to the weapons, armor 
and
> steed of the defeated knight. 
> 
a_svirn:
I don't see it. Honestly. Harry snatched all three wands from Draco. 
How come one of them is stolen and other two aren't? Why doesn't 
Wormtail's wand consider itself stolen? Ron surrendered it after all, 
and Draco picked it up. Ron didn't win it back. More to the point, 
how come the Elder wand didn't consider itself stolen, whereas it 
*was* stolen quite emphatically so? Gellerd Grindelwald didn't 
exactly follow the laws of chivalry when he snatched it and fled, did 
he? 
a_svirn.