07-30-2007, 04:40 PM
Josh Wrote:Like I said, if you could just blast out the soul like that then AK would work on the inanimate objects. The explanation of a Horcux in the book would mean that Harry's body was the Horcrux, so Voldermort would have to destory Harry to destory the Horcrux.
But that obviously didn't happen since he was alive. The Horcux doesn't have a soul, it's casing whatever it's sealed in is it's soul. That's why the Locket, the Book, etc beat with life and why they were so hard to kill.
J.K. Fell, couldn't think of a better way and fudged through it.
Well, I perhaps missed a few things there. The thing is that Harry did die, Voldemort did kill him. But in some weird, twisted way, Harry was able to return because of the bond Voldemort created between them by taking his blood, and thus While Voldemort lived, so did Harry. So, in reality (and hindsight for what I said before) Harry's boy WAS killed, and his soul did depart, but was pulled back by the bond that kept him alive as long as Voldemort was alive.
Josh Wrote:Malfoy disarmed him and left, he never claimed the Elder wand, hence the failing in that part of the story. Also, Harry stole Malfoy's original wand from him, not the Elder Wand that Voldermort pilfered from Dumbledore's grave. The Elder wand shouldn't give it's negligence to anyone other then Malfoy in that case because it was never taken or won from him.
It's poor, lazy writing on J.K.'s part.
That said, Draco didn't need to claim it as his own, the wand just needed to recognise him as its new master. Snape didn't defeat Dumbledore, because it was already arranged between them, so the wand would not have changed allegiance to Snape anyway. As for Harry taking Draco's other wand, he still overpowered him, which was enough for the wand to change allegiance again. It was all about the act of defeating the owner, more than taking the wand from them. As Harry said to Voldemort; "Just posessing the wand isn't enough".
I'll admit it doesn't make too much sense when you read it for the first time, but after thinking a bit it made sense to me, at least
