This is about the expelliarmus spell in Harry Potter. Warning Spoiler if you haven't seen the very last movie!?
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Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Don't read if you haven't seen the Deathly Hallows Part 2 or read about the Deathly Hallows at all... Thanks! OK, I know how Harry got the ownership of the Elder Wand --- when he disarmed Draco at the Malfoy Manor. Therefore, he owned the Hawthorne Wand (which is Draco's) and (somehow) the Elder Wand too (which Draco unknowingly owned first since he disarmed Dumbledore at the Tower during the Half Blood Prince). Now my question is, "Every time a witch or a wizard performs the 'expelliarmus' spell and wins, does she/he make her/him the owner of the defeated witch's or wizard's wand?" So, if that's the case, since Harry has done numerous "expelliarmus" spells in the past, he must have owned a lot of wands already. Other students have done the "expelliarmus" spell too, don't they own the a number of wands as well? I also don't get the part the "wizard chooses the wand" theory, how could the Elder Wand (seems that it has a mind of its own) choose Draco over Dumbledore? Okay, let's just say that only the Elder Wand is that highly "sensitive", in tuned to its masters wins and defeats that a simple "expelliarmus" spell can make a certain witch or wizard the owner of the said Elder wand. Along with this, all the other wands (like Ollivander's) can only make that choice of "choosing the wizard". Draco's Hawthorne wand doesn't seem to fit that theory. does it? Also, if you can retrieve the wand that you lost, can it switch back its ownership to you (in case of Dumbledore, he died even before he could retrieve his wand when Draco disarmed him)? But it's still murky on how Harry got the ownership of the Elder Wand when he only won Draco's Hawthorne wand. So if you own multiple wands, and someone just won one of your wands, do the rest of your wands switch ownership too? I know that this is a very long question, but I love to hear only "serious" answers. Thanks so much in advance...
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The Expelliarmus spell is a disarming spell and not a spell that necessarily changes wand allegiance. With the Elder Wand, it changes allegiance if the former owner of the wand is defeated, no matter what spell is used. Despite rumours of the Elder Wand being 'unbeatable', this is probably just exaggeration over years - it has been beaten many times, notably by Dumbledore when the wand was in Grindelwald's possession. Harry may have become the master of Draco's because that wand chose to swap - the wand chooses the wizard. But the Elder Wand is different, and seems more open to giving its allegiance to anyone despite their being a good or bad guy, so it couldn't have mattered that it chose Draco over Dumbledore. Apparently the Elder Wand changes its allegiance so willingly as, generally, to win the wand you must be the more skilled wizard/witch because the wand is so powerful and therefore difficult to beat. The Elder Wand will give it's allegiance to the most skilled wizard - which is usually whoever wins the duel. Obviously in the case of Dumbledore and Draco, Dumbledore didn't use the wand and purposefully didn't use the wand to defeat Draco, and so the wand assumed Draco was the better wizard.
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this may help you... according to J.K. Rowling herself... MA: But wand lore. Can you go into-- in a more detailed fashion, the way that the wands change hands and how different the Elder Wand is because fans are confused. JKR: I am going to put up another update on my website about this, and I have one half-written. Essentially, I see wands as being quasi-sentient, you know? I think they awaken to a kind of-- They're not exactly animate but they're close to it. As close to it as you can get in an object because they carry so much magic. So that's really the key point about a wand. Now, the reactions will vary from wand to wand. The Elder Wand is simply the most dispassionate and ruthless of wands in that it will only take into consideration strength. So one would expect a certain amount of loyalty from one's wand. So even if you were disarmed while carrying it, even if you lost a fight while carrying it, it has developed an affinity with you that it will not give up easily. If, however, a wand is won, properly won in an adult duel, then a wand may switch allegiance, and it will certainly work better even if it hasn't fully switched allegiance for the person who won it. So that of course is what happens when Harry takes Draco's wand from him, and that's what happens when-- But you know what I mean. Oh, yeah, Ron. The blackthorn wand from the snatcher. So that would be sort of rough and ready, common, or garden, a wand favoring the person who had the skill to take it. It would favor them. However, the Elder Wand knows no loyalty except to strength. So it's completely unsentimental. It will only go where the power is. So if you win, then you've won the wand. So you don't need to kill with it. But, as is pointed out in the books, not least by Dumbledore because it is a wand of such immense power, almost inevitably, it attracts wizards who are prepared to kill and who will kill. And also it attracts wizards like Voldemort who confuse being prepared to murder with strength. JN: Interesting. JKR: Does that clarify anything? JN: It did quite, and we look forward to reading your thing or two, I hopefully didn't... MA: Step on it too badly. JKR: No, I don't think so. I have been asked a lot of times, well what about Duelling Club and so on? Well I think it's clear there that in practice, where there's no real weight attached to the transference of a wand, where it's almost all for fun or purely for competition, there's no enormous significance attached in either wizard's mind to a wand flying out of someone's hand. But there are situations in which the emotional state of wizards where a lot hangs on a duel, that's something different. That's about real power and that's about transference that will have far-reaching effects in some cases. So I think the wand would behave differently then.
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The Expelliarmus spell is a disarming spell and not a spell that necessarily changes wand allegiance. With the Elder Wand, it changes allegiance if the former owner of the wand is defeated, no matter what spell is used. Despite rumours of the Elder Wand being 'unbeatable', this is probably just exaggeration over years - it has been beaten many times, notably by Dumbledore when the wand was in Grindelwald's possession. Harry may have become the master of Draco's because that wand chose to swap - the wand chooses the wizard. But the Elder Wand is different, and seems more open to giving its allegiance to anyone despite their being a good or bad guy, so it couldn't have mattered that it chose Draco over Dumbledore. Apparently the Elder Wand changes its allegiance so willingly as, generally, to win the wand you must be the more skilled wizard/witch because the wand is so powerful and therefore difficult to beat. The Elder Wand will give it's allegiance to the most skilled wizard - which is usually whoever wins the duel. Obviously in the case of Dumbledore and Draco, Dumbledore didn't use the wand and purposefully didn't use the wand to defeat Draco, and so the wand assumed Draco was the better wizard.
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i think the whole disarming rule only applies to the elder wand; im not too sure if harry became master of the hawthorne wand, i think it was basically 'pushed aside' due to the fact that the elder wand was dracos meaning it had merely been replaced and had no choice but to 'let go'.
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this may help you... according to J.K. Rowling herself... MA: But wand lore. Can you go into-- in a more detailed fashion, the way that the wands change hands and how different the Elder Wand is because fans are confused. JKR: I am going to put up another update on my website about this, and I have one half-written. Essentially, I see wands as being quasi-sentient, you know? I think they awaken to a kind of-- They're not exactly animate but they're close to it. As close to it as you can get in an object because they carry so much magic. So that's really the key point about a wand. Now, the reactions will vary from wand to wand. The Elder Wand is simply the most dispassionate and ruthless of wands in that it will only take into consideration strength. So one would expect a certain amount of loyalty from one's wand. So even if you were disarmed while carrying it, even if you lost a fight while carrying it, it has developed an affinity with you that it will not give up easily. If, however, a wand is won, properly won in an adult duel, then a wand may switch allegiance, and it will certainly work better even if it hasn't fully switched allegiance for the person who won it. So that of course is what happens when Harry takes Draco's wand from him, and that's what happens when-- But you know what I mean. Oh, yeah, Ron. The blackthorn wand from the snatcher. So that would be sort of rough and ready, common, or garden, a wand favoring the person who had the skill to take it. It would favor them. However, the Elder Wand knows no loyalty except to strength. So it's completely unsentimental. It will only go where the power is. So if you win, then you've won the wand. So you don't need to kill with it. But, as is pointed out in the books, not least by Dumbledore because it is a wand of such immense power, almost inevitably, it attracts wizards who are prepared to kill and who will kill. And also it attracts wizards like Voldemort who confuse being prepared to murder with strength. JN: Interesting. JKR: Does that clarify anything? JN: It did quite, and we look forward to reading your thing or two, I hopefully didn't... MA: Step on it too badly. JKR: No, I don't think so. I have been asked a lot of times, well what about Duelling Club and so on? Well I think it's clear there that in practice, where there's no real weight attached to the transference of a wand, where it's almost all for fun or purely for competition, there's no enormous significance attached in either wizard's mind to a wand flying out of someone's hand. But there are situations in which the emotional state of wizards where a lot hangs on a duel, that's something different. That's about real power and that's about transference that will have far-reaching effects in some cases. So I think the wand would behave differently then.
i think the whole disarming rule only applies to the elder wand; im not too sure if harry became master of the hawthorne wand, i think it was basically 'pushed aside' due to the fact that the elder wand was dracos meaning it had merely been replaced and had no choice but to 'let go'.
Featherweight.
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