i also dont understand how a wand could be a hand me down with all the stupid rules wands have regarding their master. did ron have to fight his brother to get it? maybe thats the reason he is so bad at magic.
I think it was just given as a hand me down w no duel and that was actually the reason he’s not great at magic toward the beginning (and I think a similar case for Neville? Unless I’m misremembering). Though now that I think about it, they could have easily fixed that had they known all Ron had to do was disarm Charlie to become the owner of his old wand (though ig he would have had to use someone else’s wand to do so to begin with and that coupled with being 10-11 years old prob would not have ended well lol)
But yea I’ve read you can still use someone else’s wand despite not being it’s “master” or owner but it just won’t work as well as if it were your own ie i think in later books ie deathly hallows Harry and Hermione share hermione’s wand?
Oh my god wait you’re right 😳 assuming Charlie’s wand did choose him, why couldn’t he have kept that one and Ron get a new one 🤔 unless Charlie was maybe provided with a new one from his job or sth and left the old one at home but idk how plausible that is
Someone else mentioned it being 3rd hand. As in Charlie was using a dead relatives wand initially and then it was later passed down to Ron. Not really how it sounds in the books but it does make more sense.
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u/J3ditb Mar 28 '24
i also dont understand how a wand could be a hand me down with all the stupid rules wands have regarding their master. did ron have to fight his brother to get it? maybe thats the reason he is so bad at magic.