Dumbledore_Master of the Elder Wand?

[moony_loony at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 192615

How did Dumbledore become the Master of the Deathstick/Elder Wand? At the beginning I was under the impression that he gained allegiance of the Wand by defeating Grindelwald in a duell. I will ignore the fact that defeating a Dark Lord with a supposedly unbeatable wand should be impossible under normal circumstances (would this mean that the wand can only be taken by cunning or underhanded means?).     Later I heard, that Grindelwald had never truly mastered the Elder Wand, he had stolen it from Gregorovitch (the other wandmaker). If this is true, how or when did Dumbledore gain the allegiance of the Elder wand? By defeating Gregorovitch? It is never said whether the wandmaker was the master of the Elder wand or if he gained through the same means as Grindelwald. I guess it would be the later, since Grindelwald could have simply gained mastership of the wand by defeating/killing the wandmaker. 
 

 So are there maybe other means of gaining allegiance of a wand besides defeating its former master? 
 Otherwise Dumbledore might not have been the master of the elder wand at all (which would explain why he didn't defeat Voldemort despite being 'the strongest wizard AND in possession of the Elder wand in the Battle inside the Ministry, book five).


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