From: isleofcapri@gmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:13:29 +0000 (UTC), Mackenzie wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:10:46 -0500, Luterfish wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:09:37 -0500, Draco Malfoy wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> I just to add to Draco's ideas here: the EW's reputation as an   
   >> "unbeatable" wand is just a legend - rather like the notion that Death   
   >> made the Hallows is a legend - spun from the Tale of the Three   
   >> Brothers. Yes, the Hallows exist, which is why some readers (and Ron)   
   >> are apt to believe that the EW is actually unbeatable, but in reality,   
   >> the EW is just extraordinarily powerful (as we see when Harry uses it   
   >> to fully repair his shattered wand that a wizard who was well-studied   
   >> in wandlore thought couldn't be repared). If it's not used with   
   >> caution, the bearer of the wand will lose it (as we saw with   
   >> Gregorvitch and the Peverell brother who made it).   
   >   
   >  We don't know for sure how he won the wand, but think about when   
   > Draco was the true master of the wand...   
      
   Yeah, think about that.   
      
   > Draco has almost seven years of magical education, is (at best) an   
   > above average student...definitely nothing 'special' where as   
   > Dumbledoreis one of the most powerful wizards in history, has broken   
   > the bounds of magic everywhere and has more magical renown than most   
   > in history....   
      
   I don't need Hoggy Hogwarts as badly as it needs me.   
      
   > If this theory is true how can the wand have given up power to Draco,   
   > a school boy, when Dumbledore, a wizard of legendary renown, possessed   
   > it?   
   >   
   > Draco sux...in Potter and even more here on afh-p.   
      
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