[spoilers!] HP Deathly Hallows

[Josh]

Well, you can't really kill an inanimate object can you? The idea, I think, is that by trying to kill Harry he instead killed the bit of his soul in Harry- which didn't belong there. Had he have used Avada Kedavra on Harry again, he would have killed him.

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.

Also, if Draco disarming Dumbledore didn't make sense, because he wasn't dead, then what about Grindlewald stealing the want, and Dumbledore taking the wand from Grindlewald after he was defeated (but not dead). As Olivander said, the wand chooses the person; you have to win the wand's allegiance before it will work fully for you, and by defeating and taking it from it's owner you do so... Be it by death or by disarming.

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.

Yeah, not to shit on your opinions, I just don't really agree I really liked the book, I think it was her best, for lots of different reasons.

I think it was okay, but it was rather rushed and poor in some parts. Far from her best writing.