User:Aryan Bhalla

Hello guys, my name is Aryan and today we’re going to be discussing Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort and their wands. For instance, we would take two duels, the first which took place in the graveyard (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), and the second which was in the Battle of Hogwarts (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2).

The Graveyard:

We all know that Harry and his friend, Cedric Diggory were, if I say, teleported from the Triwizard tournament to the graveyard of Tom Marvolo Riddle by the Triwizard cup, which was itself a port-key. At moments after Cedric was killed by a Peter Pettigrew using Avada Kedavra. Then, Peter Pettigrew had conjured a potion which used flesh, blood and bone to revive Lord Voldemort. After this, Voldemort tortured Harry and eventually it was at the most appropriate time when Voldemort asked Harry to get ready for a duel. Their wands shot green and red sparks, emerging from their tips. They had started their duel. And, perhaps, as we know that the winner can be only one in a duel, we must reach to a conclusion that either Lord Voldemort or Harry would, in this case, survive. But why didn’t Voldemort’s Avada Kedavra defeat Harry’s Expelliarmus and kill him? Well, probably the answer to this question was given by Mr. Garrick Ollivanders in the Philospher’s Stone. Voldemort’s and Harry’s wands were regarded as “brother wands”. They shared the same core, by which I mean to say that both Voldemort’s and Harry’s wands has a Phoenix feather which was by Fawkes, Dumbledore’s domesticated beast. Now, because of being brothers, both the wands recognized each other and perhaps, none of the either wands would have been able to harm or disarm the other. This is the reason why none of them would have ever won with those “brother” wands being used in a fight amongst each other.

The Battle of Hogwarts: In this battle, Harry and Voldemort entered into their final, last duel. Harry, was using Draco Malfoy’s wand, which he had obtained during a brief duel with Draco. Voldemort, on the the other side, was using the most powerful wand, the Elder wand. But the question is, even though having the most powerful wand, why wasn’t it possible for Voldemort to kill Harry? Ok, so we need to start from the basics of wandlore. For those who are unaware, wandlore is the study of wands and their behaviors. In wandlore, it is particularly described that the wand choses the wizard. This might also mean that the wand can shift allegiance to the person who had defeated its previous master. If we go little more deep, when the previous master of the wand is defeated, the wand judges the master and states that the person does not deserve the wand itself. So, if we might think a little more, we would make up a conclusion that the Elder wand in the hands of Voldemort might have shifted it’s allegiance to Harry Potter, and we must give a condition that it’s previous master could have been anyone. For understanding this, let us see the incident when Dumbledore was about to die. Before Snape used Avada Kedavra, Malfoy had already disarmed Dumbledore. After this Malfoy had no idea that he became the new master of the wand in Dumbledore’s hand, the Elder wand. Now, let us see the brief duel between Malfoy and Harry. In this short duel, Harry, if I say, had “defeated” Malfoy. By doing this, the elder wand considered Malfoy to be an incapable master and shifted it allegiance to Harry. Finally, in the Battle of Hogwarts, the Elder wand was surely in Voldemort’s hands but it’s true master was Harry. This is why Voldemort could have never killed Harry with the Elder wand without it’s allegiance. Therefore, the Avada Kedavra Voldemort used had also rebounded upon him.

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