When Voldemort loses his wand - why does he need the "greatest wand ever made" to kill Harry?
Surely he could use someone else's wand, or even get another one?...Harry's parents are both dead...so they can't get in the way to protect him with "love"...
Just something that didn't quite make sense for me when I watched the film.|||I have read all the books and Harry is still protected by love from his mother, he is protected until he moves out of his guardians house. I think Voldemort needs the wand because he thinks he can probably kill Harry with that wand even though he is protected by love. Harry's mother protected Harry from Voldemort so the wand is not the reason he cannot hurt Harry.
Voldemort's wand and Harry's wand do have a connection because Dumbledore's Phoenix, Fawks, gave only two tail feathers:
1.The one in Voldemort's wand, and
2.The one in Harry's wand,
so that isn't the reason Voldemort cannot Harry!|||Okay, this is gonna be long winded, but it WILL answer your question.
Voldemort's wand is useless when it comes up against Harry's wand because Harry's wand has the same core as Voldemorts, the exact 'TWIN core'.
In wandlore, these two wands won't attack each other properly because they think each other as 'brothers' and refuse to perform properly.
The wand Harry owns took on some of Voldemort's personal duelling skill during the graveyard duel in 'The Goblet of Fire' when they were forced to duel. This created something called Priori Incantatem.
Priori Incantatem occurs when two 'brother' wands are forced to duel, they make each other 'regurgitate' spells and skills performed and 'share them' between the wands.
He used Lucius Malfoys wand and because of the duelling skill it absorbed from the Priori Incantatem it shattered it with an unknown spell Harry never cast.
Voldemort doesn't understand wand Lore and so goes after a wand that could NEVER break or NEVER be beaten, assuming Potter has special powers or spells Voldemort doesn't know.
The truth is, its not about the power or the better wand. Its about the wand and the wizard.
The 'love protection' was overcome by Voldemort during his rebirth in The Goblet of Fire when he took some of Harry's blood, and therefore the protection.|||Voldemorts wand connected with harry's because they had the same core. A Phoenix feather from Dumbledore's phoenix.
He then tries Lucius Malfoy's wand but it breaks when he tries to use it against harry.
So he thinks only the Elder Wand can kill Harry as it is said to be undefeatable.
Voldemort does not understand love as he as never felt it therefore when Harry's mom died to save him it wasn't something he could comprehend. They don't have to be there to protect him as love makes an invisible protection agianst those that don't understand it in the book|||Yeah, the film didn't really explain it very well. My friends and I (avid HP book fans) thought that if we hadn't read the books and had just watched the movie...that it really wouldn't make sense. BUT, Voldemort's and Harry's wands have a connection because they were made VERY similarly (I think from the same piece of wood). After Voldy lost his, the only way to kill Harry without his own wand was to use an even more powerful wand...the Elder Wand. But this is going to rebound on him because remember when Hermione showed Harry that she accidentally broke his? The next part of the movie will show you why that and the Elder Wand are so significant. D: D: D: I'm dying to type it, but it's a spoiler for the next part.
OH and about the whole "loveeee" thing...When Harry's mother died for him, she "protected" him until he became of age. In the Deathly Hallows, he's 17, which is "of age" for a wizard.|||You forget though, Voldemort does use another wand. When he attacks Harry as he leaves Pivot Drive with the other six Potters, Voldemort is using Lucius Malfoy's wand. However, the attack doesn't work. Instead, it reflects back and causes him to miss his chance at Harry.
Therefore, he feels the only way to finally get rid of Harry is by using the unbeatable Elder Wand.|||He thinks he needs the greatest wand, "the elder wand" because of the connection between them. When he tried to use someone else's wand Voldemort was still unable to kill Harry because of their connection with their wands and bodies. The "love" from his mother still protects Harry. He thinks the elder wand will be able to help him kill Harry.|||Voldemort uses Lucious' wand to kill Harry but it fails. So, he had a feeling that no other Wand except the one made for you to win can defeat Harry Potter.|||He thinks the elder wand is the only way to beat harry|||The book explains|||The Elder Wand, known throughout history as the Deathstick and the Wand of Destiny, is an extremely powerful wand made of elder wood with a core of Thestral tail hair. It is supposedly the most powerful wand in existence, and when used by its true master, he or she cannot be defeated in a duel; though according to Dumbledore, this is false, for he had beaten the Elder Wand in his epic battle with the legendary dark wizard, Grindelwald. It also appears, as the wand is somewhat sentient (as are all wands), that it will not allow itself to cause real harm to its true master. As stated by Mr. Ollivander the wandmaker, the wand will never fully work for the new user unless he or she directly disarms, stuns or kills (even in Muggle fashion) the previous master. Rowling has stated that the wand is brutal in its choice of master, and that, whilst most wands have some allegiance to their own masters, the Elder Wand only responds to power. If a master dies naturally without ever being defeated, the wand's power will die for any following owner, since it was never won from the former.
The power of the Elder Wand was first shown in the story, as Antioch Peverell, the first and oldest of the mythical Three Brothers, had a duel with an enemy he had long wanted to defeat. He won, and left his enemy dead on the floor.
After boasting of his unbeatable wand, Peverell was murdered in his sleep by a rival wanting to claim the wand. Ever since, power-hungry wizards have sought the wand. It eventually came to the possession of Gregorovitch, a Bulgarian wandmaker. Gregorovitch boasted about possessing the Elder Wand, believing it would boost his popularity, and he tried to reverse engineer its secrets as he faced competition from Ollivander. It subsequently fell to Gellert Grindelwald, who stole it from Gregorovitch. Ultimately Grindelwald was defeated by Dumbledore, who then assumed control of the wand, it being the "only hallow [he] was fit to possess, not to boast of it or kill with it, but to tame it."
When Dumbledore arranged his own death with Severus Snape, he meant for Snape to "end up with the Elder Wand". Because his death would not have been the result of his defeat, Dumbledore hoped this might break the wand's power. However, since Draco Malfoy had disarmed Dumbledore, the plan failed and Draco unwittingly became the wand's new master. After Dumbledore's death, the wand was placed inside his tomb.
In the final book, Voldemort learns about the wand and goes on a search for it, and eventually knows that Dumbledore possessed the wand. He opens Dumbledore's tomb and claims the wand as his own. Only later does he learn that he cannot be the master of the wand, as he did not gain the ownership from its previous owner. Assuming Snape is its current master, Voldemort slays Snape, not realizing that the wand's allegiance was to Draco (even though Draco never had the Elder Wand physically in his possession). Furthermore, Harry later disarmed Draco and took his wand (although that was not the Elder Wand), and thus the Elder Wand's allegiance shifted to Harry, before Voldemort took physical possession of the wand.
In the Battle of Hogwarts, Voldemort casts his final Killing Curse against Harry's Expelliarmus charm. But since the Elder wand's allegiance is to Harry, Voldemort's spell backfires and kills him.
The Elder wand was also used by Harry to repair his damaged holly and phoenix feather wand. Afterwhich, he returns it to Dumbledore's tomb in the hope of fulfilling Dumbledore's original plan: for the reigning owner of the Elder Wand to die a natural death, thus ending its bloody trail of violence.
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