Wand allegiance.

[pippin_999]

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> jkoney:
> Dumbledore managed to use it for fifty years without a problem. Harry's will is just as strong and he's a better person. Why people wouldn't want him to be able to protect himself to the best of his abilities is beyond me.
>

Pippin:
What protection do you think the Elder Wand can give?

I don't think the Elder Wand can magically overpower one's will like the One Ring or a horcrux. But it's still an invitation to hubris, or, in modern terms, poor decision-making due to macho thinking and a false sense of invulnerability. 

 There are a lot of contests in canon where being master of the Elder Wand wouldn't have made any difference. 

James would still have left his wand on the sofa.

 Voldemort and Quirrell would still have underestimated Lily's love magic. 

Diary!Riddle would still have neglected to keep an eye on the diary.

Sirius and Bella would still have forgotten to duck. 

Graveyard!Voldemort would still have given Harry back his wand. 

Dumbledore, who *was* master of the Elder Wand, decided to protect Harry instead of himself. 

Harry knows all this, and he knows that he himself is prone to recklessness. Using the wand would not be playing to his strengths.  

I agree that other dark wizards will arise. There will be some people who  want to kill Harry just because he exists.  But it won't be so easy for them to find allies now that the WW is treating its citizens more fairly. Enemies will know that even if they succeeded in killing its master, the Elder Wand isn't going to do them any good unless they can get to it before someone else does. But any enemy so foolish as to want it will be foolish in other ways that Harry and his allies can exploit.

The  weaknesses of the Elder Wand should be  obvious to anyone who studies its history (as opposed to its legend.) It can't warn its owner of a surprise attack or a clever thief. Hogwarts, though, is well defended against those things. According to Luna,  everything  ever stolen at Hogwarts is eventually returned, and she may be right. Even Ravenclaw's tiara came back.

Most wizards, even the dark ones, seem to have too much fear of tearing their souls to become killers, and most of them probably  think that the wand has to pass by murder. That's what the legends say, and people who want the wand want it because they believe the legends.  

Pippin