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[–]Athelhilda4Questioning 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Doesn’t the wand choose the wizard in the series? What good would it do to provide wands that may or may not work for most of the students?

[–]TransspeciesUnicornI sexually identify as a mythical sparkly equine 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, the wand chooses the wizard, but from what I remember you can basically use any other wizard or witch's wand and it'll work alright. The magic might just be less potent?

The whole argument is dumb though, it's obvious Rowling just needed to have Ron's wand be malfunctioning so Gilderoy Lockhart would accidentally blast himself with it later. Ron's wand being broken was just to set up for a plot point, not some evil hidden propaganda against kids from low income families. They're really just grasping at straws now to try to pick apart her work now that she's a "terf".

[–]Virginia_Plain 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm sure there's something deeply problematic about that too :-)