Wand allegiance.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 187284

Eggplant:
> 
> 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.

Pippin:
How can it be both the normal human thing that Harry would keep the wand and use it, and yet not much of a stretch that Harry would put it back in Dumbledore's grave? 

Harry didn't announce that he wouldn't be using the Elder Wand. As far as most of the WW is concerned, they'd expect to face it if they attacked him. Using the holly wand won't change that.  After all, there's no rule that says a wizard can't have more than one wand on his person. 

It's not such a ridiculous  choice. As Magpie pointed out, Harry has never once been defeated using the holly wand. However, all  previous owners of the Elder Wand have been beaten. That's not because the holly wand is super powerful -- it isn't. It is, as Voldemort noted,  because others have always come to Harry's aid when he was about to lose. That's not a matter of luck alone, it's a matter of Harry choosing to consider friendship and bravery more important than magical ability, and cultivating allies who think so as well. 

That's certainly in line with what JKR conveys in other parts of the story. 

Only under Voldemort was there a Darwinian struggle for wands. It's part of the irony that the people who wanted to take wands away from others ended up without them as a direct result of their efforts. 

But under normal circumstances,  there is no scarcity. When the holly wand wears out, as it eventually must, Harry can just go to Ollivander's for a new one. Presumably that's what the Malfoys did after the war. It must have been a bit awkward for them...but Ollivander's  couldn't stay in business for thousands of years by refusing to let bygones be bygones. 

I did wonder why the  goblins wouldn't attack wizards to get their wands. But it isn't the wands themselves that goblins want, but access to the secrets of their making and the status of being lawful wand-carriers, which they obviously can't get by mugging wizards.

Eggplant:
> 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. 


Pippin:
Wonder is by nature transitory. If the object of wonder remains, it will only become part of the status quo and people will take  it for granted.  

Pippin