Wand allegiance.

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 187290

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

> Carol, who sees lots of plot holes
> in the Elder Wand story  

I only see one plot hole, not lots.

> no evidence whatever that the Elder Wand
> isn't working for LV before Harry's self-sacrifice

Nobody said the wand wasn't working for Voldemort, just that it was working no better than his old wand; it would have if he was the master of it.

> but sees no problem at all with keeping
> that evil weapon out of circulation 

Not defending that wand with everything you've got is a poor way to keep it out of circulation. And Dumbledore used that "evil" wand for half a century and certainly did a lot of good with it in that time. Harry should be able to do at least as well because even Dumbledore admits that Harry is the better man. 
 
> I'm not sure that "everyone" knows what
> happened  with the Elder Wand. [
] The
> anti-Voldemort faction probably didn't
> go around spreading the story of the Elder Wand.

Hundreds, probably thousands of people just witnessed an incredibly dramatic event and you expect every single one of them to remain silent about it forever? That just isn't going to happen.   

> No one need know that he put it
> back in Dumbledore's tomb

Everybody knows the wand was once in Dumbledore's tomb and if somebody is looking for it again that would be the first place
they'd look. 

> someone (McGonagall?) could put a protective spell
> on the tomb so it could not be broken into

If it's so easy why didn't they do it the first time? Even
Dumbledore admits that he can't cast an unbreakable protective spell. 

> The only way to break the power of the 
> wand and end the cycle is for Harry to
> die a natural death.

Historically a great many people are more than willing to kill to get that wand, so if Harry wants to die in his bed of old age he'd better have the most powerful magic available to defend himself.

But I just don't understand why a writer would even want to try to convince a reader that any of these crazy logical convolutions were realistic. Why not simply have Harry keep the wand? If that means that Harry is condemned to lead an interesting life and the 19 years before the epilogue have not been completely uneventful then so be it.

Eggplant