As my sister pointed out.. wand-lore is not a well read or a well understood subject.. in fact it appears to be one of the more jealously guarded of all wizarding knowledge. But think about this.. if a wand switches loyalty when its owner is as much as disarmed, then what happened to the wands during the practice sessions of Dumbledore's Army in the Room of Requirement? That must have been a huge mess!
So coming back to wand-lore being ill understood... there are only two wand makers cited.. Ollivander and Grigorivitch. Are we to understand that there are no other wand makers of equal stature? Don't these people have any pupils or apprentices? How does the art of wand making get passed on to future generations.. there has been no class taught at Hogwarts which might come close .. say 'Magical Engineering'. Points to ponder.
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agree about this wand changing loyalty thing. but i guess jkr's explanation would be that there nobody took anything by force, and it was all "practice" and the wands "knew". all the same, i think she should have spent more ink on explanations than on building up the miseries of harry, ron and hermione in the first half of the book. and i think the real fight was too smooth too.
i still have doubts whether JKR actually hinted that wands switch loyalty on mere disarmament. the wand you see switching was previously conquered, the disarmament just freed it from possession. either way in a duel, one does win/conquer the other wizard so it should have been a mess in DA room albeit for a different reason than just mere disarmament.
good point karthik
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