The Ravenclaw Hx identified?

nkafkafi nkafkafi at nkafkafi.yahoo.invalid
Tue Aug 2 14:43:00 UTC 2005


Neri previously:

> > And where can Rowena Ravenclaw's wand be found? Obviously, in the
> > possession of the best wandmaker in the British Isles: 
> > 
> > **************************************************************
> > SS/PS, Ch. 5, p. 82 US ed :
> >  
> > "The last shop was narrow and shabby. Peeling gold letters over 
the
> > door read Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 BC. A single
> > wand lay on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window"  
> > **************************************************************


Kneasy wrote:
> I like it.
> Shades of 'The Purloined Letter' - hide it in plain sight.
> Despite positing the possible Tarot link, I was having a bit of 
trouble
> figuring out how a single wand could be identified as important.
> Ans: Go back to the beginning, to a wand sitting in solitary 
splendour
> in a shop window. Brilliant.
> 
> Now all we have to do is wonder if Ollivander slipped the wand to
> Neville (one of his last customers) before the heavy mob came for 
him. <snip>

Neri again:
Yes! I like this. I wondered about Neville and Gran being the last to 
visit Ollivander, but couldn't figure out how it would fit. But 
Ollivander slipping Neville the Ravenclaw wand before Voldy can get 
to it, this is obviously why we needed the whole story about Neville 
breaking his father's wand. Now, what kind of wand was it that 
Neville got? In the train he says it's cherry and unicorn tail. Hmmm. 
That sounds more Neville than Rowena Ravenclaw, doesn't it? But I 
guess Ollivander could have lied to Neville about the ingredients, 
and how would Neville know?

I like the elegance of all the Horthingies ending up in Harry's 
possession or close proximity. The Ravenclaw wand in Neville's 
possession would certainly fit this pattern. I already figured out 
the locket might be in Harry's own Gringots vault, and the sixth Hx 
is of course in his own head. Now all that is left is to figure out 
why would the Hufflepuff cup end up in the bottom of his trunk. Do 
you suppose Dumbledore put a Hx-magnet charm on Harry, or was it JKR 
who did it?

Neri









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