Make-up Blog: The Elder Wand

            In the final demise of Voldemort, the Elder Wand plays a significant role. As with the horcruxes and his earlier pursuit to posses the Sorcerer’s Stone, to Voldemort the Elder Wand represents a way for him to gain immortality. He did everything he could to wield its true power by taking it from Dumbledore’s grave and killing Snape, but he still was not the true master. As Harry points out in the final duel in the Great Hall, the true master upon Dumbledore’s death was Draco Malfoy who had in fact disarmed Dumbledore, not Snape who actually performed the act of killing him. When the trio was caught and taken into Malfoy’s basement, in the process of their escape and saving Hermione from Bellatrix, Harry takes the wand from Draco making him the true master.

            Once Harry has defeated Voldemort by using his favorite disarming spell to rebound Voldemort’s killing curse back onto himself, he goes to the headmaster’s study to talk with the portrait of Dumbledore with Ron and Hermione. Here we find out what Harry intends to do with the Elder Wand. He says that he was happier with his old wand and, though Ollivander had deemed his wand irreparable, uses the power of the Elder Wand to fix his own. With his old wand fixed he declares his intentions of putting the wand back where it came from, despite Ron’s protests, and letting its’ power die as he dies of natural causes later in life. He feels that way because he’s “had enough trouble for a lifetime” which is completely understandable considering what he done and his adult life has only just begun.