Wand allegiance.

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 187288

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
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> 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. 

jkoney:
Most people would assume that Harry is either going to use the wand, which they will be able to see or he won't use it in which case (being Harry) he would have put it back in Dumbledore's tomb. 

Carrying a second 14 inch piece of wood along would be uncomfortable let alone difficult to hide. Unless he puts it in his moleskin pouch, but that would take too long to get out if he is in trouble and has lost his first one.



> Pippin
> 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. 

jkoney:
I think the Elder wand must be more powerful, otherwise the legend wouldn't have originated around it. 
> 
> Pippin 
> 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. 

jkoney:
I think it would be better said that only under Voldemort was the Darwinian struggle for wands made known to us. 

In times of piece it wouldn't matter because no one would be trying to disarm their opponents.