Wand allegiance.

[eggplant107]

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"kamion53" <kersberg at ...> wrote

> please insult my intelligence 

I really don't want to do that, you seem like a nice fellow, but if you insist
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> by explaining why there are different laws 
> for playfight and fights to the death 

Even a four year old knows that when he points his finger at a friend and says "Bang bang you're dead" the friend is not actually dead. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect sophistication of a similar level from wands, or JKR of her readers.

> Do wands set themself on "playmode" when 
> kids are making "just mischief"? 

See, I know you could figure it out for yourself without being led by the nose by me or JKR.

"pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote: 

> Hermione takes the Trio's expelliarmus attack
> on Snape seriously in PoA

Yes and there is nothing in further books to suggest that Snape's wand didn't switch allegiances, or that Snape didn't use a different wand from that point on.

None of these things is a plot hole because a solution is readily apparent even if it isn't laboriously spelled out in the text. However JKR isn't perfect and there is indeed a plot hole involving a wand, its just not the one you were talking about.

At the end of book 7  Harry says he's not going to use the Elder Wand again because he doesn't want every two bit punk who fancies himself a great dark wizard trying to defeat him and become the new master of the wand. But this makes no sense, Harry demonstrated in the most convincing way imaginable that he is indeed the master of the Elder Wand and he did it in front of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people. Use it or not Harry is the new master and now everybody knows it. If Harry wants to die undefeated of old age and stop the bloody legacy of that wand he's going to need to use the most powerful wand he can find to defend himself. Now THAT is a plot hole.

I get the impression that although the Epilogue was written before book 1 was published JKR made some last second changes to make the ending more cheery. Reportedly the very last sentence in the entire Potter saga was "But lately only those who loved him could see Harry's scar", but then it was changed to something so bad I refuse to quote it. It wouldn't surprise me that in the earlier draft Harry kept using the Elder Wand too.    

 Eggplant