Wand allegiance.

[Beatrice23]

No: HPFGUIDX 187364

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
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> > Carol:
> > > > Have you forgotten that Harry can't  make the Snatcher's wand work for him in DH? 
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> > Eggplant: 
> > > Read it again, Harry hated the wand and it didn't work nearly as well as he thought it should, but it's just not true that it didn't work at all. 
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> > Magpie:
> > Right. DH is pretty clear what happens when you use a wand that isn't yours. You can use it, it just feels off and doesn't seem to work as well as the wand that is yours.
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> Carol responds:
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> Except that we never see any other wizard (except Neville using his "father's wand, and his problem appears to be a lack of confidence) having as much trouble as Harry does with the Snatcher's wand. In DH, Hermione is even more uncomfortable with the wand that Crucio'd the Longbottoms into insanity yet has no difficulty getting it to work for her, in contrast to Harry.
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Beatrice:

Actually, I think that Ron indicates in SS /PS that he has Charlie's old wand or is it Bill's and the "unicorn hair is poking out," if memory serves.  I actually think that the fact that these two characters and (Draco who borrows his mother's wand to confront Harry in the RoR at the end of DH, oooohh and "kevin" who enlarges a slug at the Quidditch world cup with "daddy's wand")  represent something very different.  They are borrowing the wand of  a relative someone with whom they have an affinity and a bond.  Thus the wand might work better for them rather than for a stranger or an outright enemy.  I think that Harry even thinks to himself (he doesn't state it because he doesn't want to irritate Hermione more) that Hermione ought to take the Hawthorne wand and Harry will take hers which seems to indicate that he is more comfortable using his friend's wand rather than some random snatcher.  

Although, I guess you could argue that the wand is now Ron's so it should work better for Harry, but the wand is new to Ron and perhaps it hasn't bonded with him in the way that Hermione's wand bonded with her.

Also if you think of the wands as taking on characteristics of their masters, the bond between the wand and the wizard probably deepen and strengthen over time the trio's original wands witness their friendships from very early on.  Maybe wands are more like a pet, certainly, not like a mere strip of wood.