More thoughts on the Elder Wand subplot - Owner?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 187369

---  "Alina Bonci" <alinabonci at ...> wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> ... I wonder why Dumbledore never told Snape that he wanted the latter to get the Elder Wand. ... But it seems that the Elder Wand directly concerned him (Snape), and I don't understand why Dumbledore would not have told him about about his intentions. Is it because he never intended Snape to own it, ...? ...
> 
> Alina
>

bboyminn:

Well, you've touch on one of the most confusing and debated 
aspects of the whole Elder Wand Subplot. 

I think Dumbledore might have intended Snape to have the wand,
though I confess that is pretty thin, but I don't think
Dumbledore wanted Snape or anyone to OWN the Elder Wand.

Remember, Snape isn't really defeating Dumbledore, he is acting
on Dumbledore's orders and with Dumbledore's conscent. That
hardly constitutes a defeat. 

I think with Dumbledore's death, he expected the wand to then
be ownerless. Its current Master never having been truly 
defeated, but none the less, now dead.

Slight flaw in that though. I suspect in its very long history,
the Wand must have lost its owner in ways other than defeat. Yet,
eventually the wand transferred its allegiance to the new
possessor of the Wand. 

So, even after Dumbledore's undefeated death, could a new
possessor of the Wand have come along that the Wand would
have accepted as an owner? I don't know, but it seems like
it might have done so in the past. 

Steve/bboyminn