What annoyed me most (SPOILERS!!!)

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--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" 
<spotthedungbeetle at ...> wrote:
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> The finale. The final duel. Quite apart from confidently expecting 
> Snape to turn up with Fawkes in a blaze of vengeful glory (bloody 
> useless bird), Avada Kedavra is supposed to be UNBLOCKABLE!
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Stupid bird, I had money on that bird I did!

Yeah unblockable, but thats before we knew about super wands. 
Honestly its like playing paper/scissors/stone with someone who can 
call 'Cruise missile you're out'.

As I replied to Amanda it didn't matter because it wasn't a dual, 
Voldy couldn't hurt Harry 'cos of the whole sacrifice thing, the 
Crucio didn't work and nor would AK.

Anyway what's all this about a wand having super powers, where did 
we get a heads up on that. Haven't we been repeatedly shown that 
wands work differently for different people, that they suit 
individuals rather than some inherited property. Haven't we been 
shown that a bad match can hamper a good wizard but that a good 
match can't make them a better wizard...Give a squib or a muggle a 
wand and not much happens because the magic is in the person.

Not once, IIRC, have we been led to believe, suspect, contemplate 
that a wand can be special in itself.

In the end I think JK only introduced it as a way of avoiding having 
Harry actually offski the bad man. Snape and Fawkes would have been 
much better...

Jo