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Meta: thoughts on the ownership of wands
Aug. 25th, 2007 12:03 amInspired by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
schemingreader's post about the mechanics of the final showdown between Harry and Voldemort -- originally a comment there which she encouraged me to repost, it's been expanded here with some further thoughts.
Right. I suspect that many of us were a little surprised by the emphasis placed in DH on the 'wand choosing the wizard', which had never been treated in detail before. Even more so, the idea of the ownership of a wand changing when it was captured was new -- raising the question of why wands weren't changing hands during DA practice more often than Teddy Lupin changes the colour of his hair. And then you wonder: how did Dumbledore beat Grindelwald in their duel, if the latter was in possession of the supposedly unbeatable Elder Wand at the time?
( Here's an attempt at making sense of this )
schemingreader's post about the mechanics of the final showdown between Harry and Voldemort -- originally a comment there which she encouraged me to repost, it's been expanded here with some further thoughts.Right. I suspect that many of us were a little surprised by the emphasis placed in DH on the 'wand choosing the wizard', which had never been treated in detail before. Even more so, the idea of the ownership of a wand changing when it was captured was new -- raising the question of why wands weren't changing hands during DA practice more often than Teddy Lupin changes the colour of his hair. And then you wonder: how did Dumbledore beat Grindelwald in their duel, if the latter was in possession of the supposedly unbeatable Elder Wand at the time?
( Here's an attempt at making sense of this )
