Title: The Hawthorn Wand
Author: Scrtkpr
Rating: PG
Pairing: (pre-)Harry/Draco
Word Count: 1,160
Summary: Draco has issues.
Disclaimer: I am not J.K. Rowling and do not own these characters. No money is being made from this story, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Warning: Spoilers for book seven. Currently pre-beta.
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Deathly Hallows spoilers!! )
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Thanks for sharing.
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I have some trouble with the new wandlore - I think it'll need thrashing out in fanfic a bit. A successful Expelliarmus shouldn't be enough to change a wand's allegiance - otherwise people, especially students, would be forced to get new wands all the time. But as I said, I liked this.
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Right now my working theory is that if wands are "alive" in a sense (that's canon now) and rather sentient, it would probably depend on the circumstances whether or not a wand actually switched allegiances. I clarified in more detail down below, but I think a forceful Harry in a life-or-death situation might have been enough to win the wand entirely away from Draco, who had been paralyzed by fear for quite some time. I now hypothesize that the wand was disgusted with Draco! lol
But I love leaving it up to interpretation how much of Draco's difficulties are all in his head. (I'm sure that's at least partly what's going on.)
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I keep stumbling over this sentence: You may have no need for it, but it is now of even less use to me. I know exactly what you mean, but somehow it leaves me thinking every time I read it. Not sure ...
Blindmouse has a good point. Perhaps the wand--if it has as much "brain" as DH suggests--understands the diff between student games and real combat? Of course, didn't Arthur teach us not to trust anything whose brains we can't see? Or something like that?
Hmmm, on the other hand, didn't LV expelliarmus (forgive my turning this word into a verb here) Harry's wand in the graveyard, and then just hand it back and battle ensued? tsk, JKR is sloppy. :(
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I guess I was thinking...Harry was extremely forceful when he captured Draco's wand, and Draco was extremely powerless. If anyone could be forceful enough to get a wand to change allegiances that extremely, it would be Harry.
And Draco could have enough issues about Harry taking and then returning his wand in the way he did that he could find himself completely incapable of using it for that reason. I was trying to explore how big of a hit to Draco's sense of self worth the whole thing might have been...
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JKR can't bring us down with her silly epigag, but changing the rules of wands is not on.
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I intentionally tried to leave it a little ambiguous how much of this is the wand actually changing allegiances and how much is just Draco's Issues, because these are things I'm still trying to puzzle out for myself (how common is this mastering of other wands thing, is it possible for it to happen to such an extreme degree in extreme circumstances, etc.).
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I'm sure Draco was feeling pretty down after everything, including being saved twice by Harry, but Harry knows how to lift Draco's spirits. ;)
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no, i disagree. didn't hermione have trouble with bellatrix's wand, which she did not win from bellatrix? didn't harry have trouble with all the wands he tried until draco's which worked fine for him, as he'd "won" it from draco?
i hate all this new "canon" wandlore shit. sloppy, sloppy pulled-it-out-of-her ass canon.
BUT! i really really liked your story, scrtkpr! the end was just fabulous! crabbe's funeral was perfect! and draco's constant pain and humiliation was just SO well done. brava, honey. :)
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I owe a lot of e-mails to people, too. *tears at hair* I will catch up eventually!
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