Finished! (Spoilers)

[quigonginger]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pip at ...> wrote:
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> Pippin:
> > I can't quite figure out what happened with the wands either, but 
> > that's probably the point --  DD and Voldie  both got it wrong.
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Pip:
> Yup. The Elder Wand is like some Wizarding Equivalent of a World 
> Championship in Boxing. You keep the thing until the next Wizard 
> defeats you - either by killing you, or disarming you, or by making 
> you surrender. And that defeat counts even if you aren't using the 
EW 
> at the time. 

Ginger says:

Great analogy, Pip.  I had not understood it as I was thinking of 
Elder as a type of wood like elderberry bush or boxelder tree.  Once 
Harry started in about how he had taken the wand from Draco, who had 
disarmed DD, rather than Snape being the holder of the Elder wand 
since DD was unarmed when Snape killed him, then it clicked.

On a different topic, let's talk Trelawney.
We've seen her hiding her sherry bottles in the RoR.  "Why not vanish 
them?" we asked.  Is she a squib?  Hmm, but she uses magic in the 
final battle.  So.........
Is she the one who uses magic later in life?  Or has she always been 
able to use it, but chooses not to use it when she is hiding her 
bottles, preferring to hide them nonmagically?  Kind of like calling 
a cab rather than driving when drunk.

To Amanda, and other Snape-lovers out there:
Isn't it lovely?  We no longer have to be so appologetic for loving 
our Potionmaster.  Ah, sweet redemption.

 Ginger, planting flowers at the Snape shrine in her head.