Wand allegiance

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 187264

Magpie:
> In DH it seemed like they really couldn't choose exactly, since the
> whole plot depended on them pretty much switching alliances over
> power. In the first book--and all the way through HBP--I thought it
> was implied that wands had certain qualities due to their wood and
> core that were naturally sympathetic to different people. The wand
> chose the wizard because you found "your" wand, basically, and then
> the bond was strengthened as you learned together. Thus a Wizard who
> was shy would have a wand more suited to their personality than a
> person who was aggressive. I think DH completely overwrote that with
> the later addition that all wands respond to strength. If you win
> somebody's wand it sees you as its master, even if it would never
> have chosen you in that first moment.

Dave:
I have to admit that I have never seen it that way -- Even though the axiom "The Wand Chooses the Wizard" is used differently in DH, I thought that this new property was unique to the Elder Wand.  In other words, *only* the Elder Wand changes its allegiance as the result of a duel. -- All other wands still "choose the wizard" in the manner we are led to believe they do in the first book, as you describe above.  For example, in my own view, after disarming Draco, the Elder Wand changed its allegiance to Harry, but Draco's own wand didn't.  I was 100% certain of this up until I started reading this thread... Now I'm only about 90% certain...

Dave