How would things be different if Snape had gotten the Elder Wand?

[nikkalmati]

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> > Annemehr:
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> > I don't understand - why is it illogical for LV to think he could become master of the Elder wand by killing Snape, believing as he did that Snape had become its master by killing Dumbledore?  Actually, come to think of it, why didn't he kill Snape for it much earlier?
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> I suppose Voldemort considered that he himself had won the wand from Dumbledore, since he had engineered the plot to kill him, and taken the wand from his tomb. But when he had had the wand for a while and it had failed to grant him any special powers (you can read about those in Beedle, if you are interested),  he began to be troubled by the thought that it was not truly his. 
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> So he decided to rearrange matters by killing Snape. But it was crazy to think that would make him master of the wand if he wasn't master already. He should have realized that Snape must have killed Dumbledore too late, after the wand had already passed to another.
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Nikkalmati

I suppose that's why JKR never wrote that scene where LV is told that DD is dead.  She couldn't figure out a way that LV would not find out Draco had disarmed DD, and she didn't want that!

I am not so good at timelines, but LV had not had the wand very long.  Those last chapters only cover a couple of days, I think.  LV returns from Switzerland(?) to Malfoy Manor, then sets out to get the wand from DD's tomb while Harry is at Shell Cottage.  The next day the Trio go to Gringotts and LV discovers his Horcruxes are missing.  The Trio goes to Hogsmead right away and arrive at night.  Snape is killed the next night.   

Nikkalmati