From: isleofcapri@gmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:08:23 -0500, The Insulting Texting Parrot   
   wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:21:20 -0800 (PST), Rats wrote:   
   >   
   >> The Elder wand is supposed to be a wand that cannot lose in duels yet   
   >> Dumbledore beat Grindewald in a duel to win the elder wand off him.   
   >> How could this be?   
   >   
   > It's probably because Dumbledore had the most powerful magic in the   
   > world on his side, you know love. We're shown that love reaches even   
   > beyond death so maybe even the Elder wand wasn't powerful enough   
   > against this force.   
      
   The Elder Wand is only powerful when in use. If you just hold it   
   without casting a spell that instant, or you cast something at any   
   target other than your dueling opponent you can still lose it to brute   
   force (Gregorovitch vs Grindelwald) or by magical disarming (Me vs   
   Dumbledore). So all sorts of scenarios are possible.   
      
   - Albus could have shamed Gellert into handing the wand in   
   - Albus could have distracted Gellert ('Where have you been all these   
   years? I was so sad to hear of what you were doing. That wasn't at all   
   what we were dreaming of') and cast an Expeliarmus while Gellert was   
   distracted.   
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