Wand allegiance.

[eggplant107]

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"Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Carol, who thinks that Harry is doing
> the right and sensible thing by keeping
> the Elder Wand hidden and unused 


I don't see why, use it or not Harry is still Master of the Elder Wand and now everybody knows it. And I don't know what you mean by "Hidden", everybody knew Voldemort got the wand from Dumbledore's grave so it wouldn't be much of a stretch to guess Harry would put
it back. Not that you'd even need to know its location, if somebody defeated Harry the new Master of the Elder Wand could just use any old wand and say "Acio wand" and I imagine it would come to its master. In fact that must be how Voldemort got his wand back after being a disembodied spirit for 13 years.

I wouldn't have stopped using that powerful wand in a million years, but rather than discuss Harry's choice it might be more interesting to discuss JKR's choice. Was it wise of her to make Harry get rid of that wand? I don't think so, besides creating a plot hole and making a character behave in a way that a real Human Being never would it
is also a cliché.

Too many fantasy stories have the object of wonder destroyed at the end, the amazing planet or land of the dinosaurs blows up, the time traveling DeLorean gets hit by a train, the secret lab notes of the mad scientist gets burned, and the Elder Wand gets buried. I suppose writers do that because they think readers want things to return to the Status Quo. I'm not really a big fan of the Status Quo. 
 
 Eggplant