However since Snape did not actually disarm Dumbledore, the wand wouldn't cooperate with Lord Voldemort. After looking at the Pensieve, Harry realizes that Snape was not to blame for Dumbledore's death and figures out that Draco Malfoy did disarm Dumbledore. After Harry Potter defeats Lord Voldemort, he actually explains to Hermione and Ron how he had just recently disarmed Malfoy, making Harry owner of the wand.
However, seeing as the Elder Wand with its powers has caused so much trouble, wars and deaths alike, he places it back into Dumbledore's grave in the book; in the film he snaps it in two , thinking the wizarding world would be much better without it. Here is an attempt at a reply to the initial question.
I think, and I am not well acquainted with the books, that it is a special feature of the elder wand, a special feature of "power", if you will, that its allegiance is of such a transient nature. However, in my point of view that is not necessarily intrinsic to ordinary wands just as much. However, Voldemort believes that you have to kill a person to get it, making it so the wand goes from Dumbledore to Snape to Voldemort.
Snape killed Dumbledore so the wand was then his. Voldemort killed Snape so the wand was then Voldemort's and Voldemort was killed by Harry but then Harry snapped the wand in two and threw it away.
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Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. The Dark Lord announces that Hogwarts will be united under a single house, Slytherin. He entices Neville , a pureblood, to join him. Neville refuses and charges, only to be caught in a Full-body bind. Voldemort summons the Sorting Hat from the Headmaster's office and places it on Neville's head, setting it afire. Several things happen simultaneously.
The families of students sent home arrive, howling war cries as they climb the outer walls. The Centaurs, ending their neutrality, charge the Death Eaters. Grawp reappears around the corner, headed for Hagrid. Neville frees himself from the body-bind curse. Seizing the Sword of Gryffindor that has appeared in the Sorting Hat, he withdraws it and hacks off Nagini 's head, destroying the final Horcrux.
As the battle erupts again, the Death Eaters, retreating from the new threat that now includes Thestrals and Buckbeak , enter the castle. Harry, under the Cloak, heads for the Entrance Hall, searching for Voldemort.
Inside, House-elves , led by Kreacher , are hacking the Death Eaters' ankles with kitchen knives. Voldemort is simultaneously dueling McGonagall , Slughorn , and Kingsley. Bellatrix is likewise fighting Hermione , Ginny , and Luna. When Bellatrix's curse barely misses Ginny, an enraged Molly Weasley pushes the three girls aside and challenges Bellatrix directly. As they fiercely duel, Molly proclaims that another Weasley will never be harmed and casts a powerful curse directly to Bellatrix's chest, killing her.
Voldemort's fury over losing his most devoted follower blasts McGonagall, Kingsley, and Slughorn backwards. As Voldemort turns to Molly, Harry casts a shield charm between them, then pulls off his Invisibility Cloak, revealing himself to the audibly stunned crowd.
Harry warns everyone to stay back - the battle is between him and Voldemort now. They circle each other warily. Voldemort claims that Harry continually survives by hiding behind better wizards who sacrifice themselves for him. Harry urges Voldemort, who he boldly addresses as Tom Riddle , to feel remorse for his evil deeds. He then tells Voldemort that Dumbledore outsmarted him, planning his own death, and that Snape was never the Elder Wand's master.
The true master was Draco Malfoy, who unknowingly won the wand's allegiance when he disarmed Dumbledore , just before Snape killed him on the Astronomy Tower. Because Harry willingly sacrificed himself to Voldemort, the same magic that Lily Potter 's death protected Harry with, now protects the fighters.
The rising sun suddenly illuminates the two duelers. How did Neville get the Sword of Gryffindor? And it came back to Neville. Is Snape good or evil? After seven years at Hogwarts, we finally learn that Severus Snape, albeit somewhat grudgingly, has always been working to protect Harry.
But is he really a good person? Only in his final encounter with Harry at the Battle of Hogwarts was Voldemort told that he had failed to win the true allegiance of the wand, as he did not gain ownership by defeating its previous owner. However, because the wand's allegiance was to Harry, Voldemort's spell backfired and killed him, once and for all.
With Voldemort defeated, and Harry now the true master and possessor of the Elder Wand, he used it to repair his damaged original wand of holly and phoenix feather , which he said he was "happier with". The portrait of Professor Dumbledore approved. During the duel she disarmed Harry, and later on, Hermione bound Delphini. In an alternate reality inadvertently created by Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy , in which Voldemort maintained his immortality when his final Horcrux was not killed, Voldemort successfully killed Harry Potter and dominated the wizarding world, meaning he has successfully attained mastery over the Elder Wand.
This alternate world was eventually undone by Scorpius. The Elder Wand was the most powerful wand in existence.
Its owner could have used it to cast spells more powerful than any believed to be magically possible. Both Ollivander and Voldemort believed that the wand's legendary powers is the only one capable of overpowering the bond between the latter and Harry, which created such an effect that Harry managed to overcome Voldemort's attempt to kill him.
Dumbledore duelling Voldemort with the Elder Wand. However, there does exist limitations in the Elder Wand's power, appearing to merely able to improve pre-existing spells to perform the seemingly impossible but not actually able to perform the impossible. Dumbledore himself was incapable of curing the petrified victims of Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk or nullifying the curse on Marvolo Gaunt's ring entirely, and neither was he able to overcome the enchantments upon Voldemort's Drink of Despair with the wand amplifying his own magic.
In addition, while most of the times where the Elder Wand shifted allegiance was not in a fair fight but by cunning assassination, it does not entirely guarantee victory against others, as displayed by Dumbledore's ability to defeat Gellert Grindelwald despite him having mastered the Elder Wand, while Egbert the Egregious was known for having actually defeated Emeric the Evil in a duel to claim the wand.
This can be attributable, however, to the fact that in these circumstances, the proper counter-charms or counter-potions weren't known to the master of the Elder Wand at the time. Moreover, not all spells have a counter-spell, but instead, a counter-potion. These scenarios are comparable to when Neville in his first few years studying at Hogwarts was cursed by Draco Malfoy many times, such as being bounded by the Leg-Locker Curse, which only Hermione in their year, was able to undo the effects of.
Neville himself was unable to undo the Leg-Locker Curse's effects on him, but Hermione was, highlighting the fact that knowledge of the curse, its effects, and counter-curses or counter-potions are important in removing the effects of curses and other dark magic.
Voldemort casting the Shield penetration spell with the Elder Wand, to breach Hogwarts protection. While it is stated that a wand will not give up its master so easily if it is attempted to be won, The Elder Wand seems to do this time and time again.
However, this might not be referring to its willingness to give up its master, but rather to the amount of effort it took to defeat the wielder of the Wand. As the wand, like the eldest brother in the Tale, embodied the conceit that "Might is Right", greater power would, from its perspective, indicate superiority. Ron has noted that he would choose the wand of the three Hallows, but argued that he would do so while not proclaiming his ownership of it, reasoning that the wand was only dangerous to the first brother because he bragged about owning it rather than the wand being dangerous on its own.
When Lord Voldemort used the Elder Wand without mastering it he claimed that the wand only unleashed his regular albeit immensely powerful level of magic and not the unbeatable effects it was rumoured to possess. It's unknown if the wand would work this way for another who hasn't mastered it though, as Voldemort has used the wands of others in the past with no handicap, it's likely that this is his own power rather than that of the Elder Wand.
It did have one redeeming quality like all other wands, however: it refused to harm or kill its master nor those under sacrificial protection. In the Deathly Hallows symbol, the Elder Wand is shown as the vertical line that goes right through the middle of the circle and the triangle ; it represents the aspects of power and invincibility of the Hallows as a whole, the tent pole, as it were, of the entire edifice. While "The Elder Wand" capitalised refers to one of the Deathly Hallows , other wands have been made from elder wood.
Rowling has discussed how the Elder Wand behaves slightly different from other wands in its loyalty:. The Elder Wand is one of the Deathly Hallows , represented here by the vertical line. Harry Potter Wiki Explore. Rowling Story. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account?
Elder Wand. View source. History Talk Do you like this video? Play Sound. It has certain identifying characteristics that those who are learned in wandlore recognise Whether it needs to pass by murder, I do not know. Its history is bloody, but that may be simply due to the fact that it is such a desirable object, and arouses such passions in wizards.
Immensely powerful, dangerous in the wrong hands, and an object of incredible fascination to all of us who study the power of wands.
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