Why Harry would not use Elder Wand? WAS: Re: Wand allegiance.

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> 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. 
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Alla:

But all those examples that you cited and I snipped do not really work for me, because most of them are really not fights and if in the example of fight one of the participants did have elder wand, how do we know that it will not make a difference?

But do not get me wrong, I totally see that Harry would not have been using elder wand, only I do not see any justifications that you are bringing it up. I mean, really, the most powerful weapon to defend himself, if it was a different series, I would say - eh why not?

But here especially after book 7 to me it is very clear that guns and their magical equivalents, strong magical powers are very last thing that will bring JKR's characters victory.

I think JKR wants the hero whose power comes from self sacrifice, not from being the strongest fighter physically, from somebody who has friends who will stand up for him, not that he had to know all the magic tricks, etc.

So what I am trying to say is that to me Harry not using Elder wand goes very well in line of how I see one of the series main ideas, but it does not hold against any common sense scrutiny of why one would not want to use a very strong magical gun for self defense.

She wanted to make Harry a pacifist, forgive your enemy and put the other cheek kind of guy in my opinion. I mean I know that he fought a war, I am just saying that this is the kind of view IMO he comes to have after the war if that makes sense.


I for some reason reminded of Heralds of Voldemar series by Mercedes Lackey. Heralds and their Companions guard all that is good and just, but boy they do not hesitate to use their powers to do so if needed. Potter Series though imo stand for totally different idea.

JMO,

Alla