Wand allegiance.

[eggplant107]

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Eggplant:
>> He's [Voldemort's] complaining that
>> it brought him no new powers.

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

> But there's nothing to back him up,
> no evidence to indicate that his statement
> or his perception is accurate.

What new powers did the Elder Wand give Voldemort? Yes he was powerful after he got that new wand, but he was powerful with his
old one; the point is there was no change and Voldemort thought
there should have been. It's really clear as a bell and I don't
see how in the world you can call that a plot hole.

> Voldemort is inside the Shrieking Shack, [
.]
> I really don't understand why you think
> that LV can't get onto the Hogwarts grounds,
> with or without the Elder wand.

Rather than get into a futile discussion about if the Shrieking Shack is considered inside or outside the walls of Hogwarts the point is that the battle is NOT over yet. Voldemort has the Elder Wand but he still isn't master of all he surveys. If it was working at 100% he would have been.

> Voldemort did not think of the kinds of
> amazing things you seem to be imagining

Voldemort could think of winning the war, but the war has still not been won.

> nothing, that he attempts with the Elder Wand
> fails to work for him

When a race car driver gets a new car that is supposed to be faster the first thing he'll do is try it out to see if it really is faster than the old car, and the first thing Voldemort would do is try to do something with the Elder Wand that he couldn't do before. The outcome was disappointing.

> Carol, hoping that we can drop the thread here

You mean you're hoping to have the last word. Sorry.

By the way, somebody asked why Dumbledore planed for Snape to become the new Master of the Elder Wand and didn't just snap the wand in half. I like to think the reason is that he believed that would be an act of barbarous vandalism. It's bad enough he destroyed the Philosopher's Stone.

 Eggplant