I finally finished reading the Harry Potter series

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themanwithnoname said:

rocketpig said:

themanwithnoname said:

Meh, Deathly Hallows is just bad. Elder Wand lore that comes from nowhere, makes no sense and is just typical lazy deus ex machina meant to drive the plot. That and the final battle is pretty anti-climactic and the epilogue is just atrociously "and they lived happily ever after." I would be happier with the series if I had never read the last book.

You can dislike the Elder Wand storyline (and I'm not crazy about it) but it's definitely not a deus ex machina. Nothing is solved through the Elder Wand. The Elder Wand doesn't fix or really even change anything. It's an item to pursue that Voldemort thinks will fix his problem when the point is that, ultimately, his failure is pursuit of objects in the first place.

With or without the Elder Wand, Voldemort loses. I think it was a mistake to make such a fuss over the Disarming of Malfoy/Snape but that's really just me quibbling over details.

Perhaps not in the strictest sense of the word, but it's still an incredibly convenient thing to invent just to give Voldemort something to try to attain. If it was mentioned in earlier books, I wouldn't be as down on it as I am, but if you consider the implications the events of the book have on wand ownership, there is a fundamental logic breakdown with how the Elder Wand is handled in the book. I just think that there was a better solution than inventing a whole new lore in the last book of the series because she couldn't think of something better for Voldemort to do. That's always been the way I've felt. It just comes off as incredibly convenient and clear signs that she had no plan for how this series was going to end from the start. Some people may not have a problem with that, but I do.

And that's fair. It didn't really bother me because it was established relatively early that Voldemort was a collector of rare and sought-after objects. The secrecy behind the Elder Wand makes sense given the wand's tumultuous history and the death that surrounds it. Having Dumbledore carry it in secret kind of makes sense. No one intelligent would want the world to know they have the Elder Wand.