Potter fans, help me! I am so confused about that bloody Elder Wand in The Deathly Hallows.

[JackSawMamaKissingSantaClaus]

I'm not normally dim, and have read The Deathly Hallows three or four times. But I just can't get my mind around the thing with the Elder Wand.

Why does Voldemort want it so much, and isn't there some confusion with the last spell done by the wand, and something backfires on Voldemort, which is how Harry finds himself in the white train station talking to Dumbledore and deciding whether to live or die in the end... help!!

I know Voldemort steals the Elder Wand out of Dumbledore's grave... but it ends up not being the right wand...? Or something...?

HELP!!

Oh the Dobby bit it too sad - far far sadder in the book than the film for certain

I still managed to sob my heart out in the film! Thought Daniel R was at his best there.

He's yummy, isn't he. But why are the current crop of young British actors (Daniel Radcliffe, Robert Pattinson) so pale and skinny??

Harry didn't die because Voldemort had taken his blood in an earlier book, so Harry's mum's protection was actually still livingo inside Voldemort, which is why Harry couldn't die

What... I'm back to being confused.

Is that my fault? Sorry

See - i understand this now. But the first time i read the last few chapters alot of Gin had been consumed and i thought the little shrivelled creature was Dumbledore's soul coming back to life. I saw him as the phoenix and thought he'd regrow from the flames like his pet....and be there at the end - maybe even as a youngster.

i.e. got it completely wrong....

not unless you were serving the Gin oricella

LOL at both of you.

Ok, maybe I'm not quite as confuddled as I thought. But when I re-read, I'm going to keep this thread close! Or print it, or something.

I won't take the blame for that portly

was just worrying I'd got JSMKSC back in a muddle...

You're not confuddled - you're confunded...

Confounded, you mean?

Better than Obliviated, I think... :o

(My non-Christmas name is Jacksmama, JM for short)

hmmm... could be, now you've got me confused

No confunded I think.

Confoozled?

Definitely a confundus charm flying around here

A bit of Harry & Voldie lived in each other - the accidental horcrux in Harry and Lily's protection in the bit of Harry's blood in Voldie. But those bits stopped working after Harry accepted his fate and died. It's still a bit confusing actually. I'm going to have to read it again now

This is (partly) why I think Deathly Hallows pretty much sucks as a final book. Too complicated by far - the wandiness and blood-protection issues - let alone the fact that Harry gets to throw UnForgiveables about because someone insults his teacher, and he is never pulled up on it. Harry's heroism just doesn't work as a story, as it's entirely manufactured and "sacrifice-by-numbers".

This is fab: Mark Reads Harry Potter. Really funny and I understood some bits better which I didn't really get the first time.

I love Deathly Hallows.

I love all the books.