04 April 2008

We're all muggles

Ron tried 2 times to use his broken wand, and you know what he found out? Broken wands don't work, or they do work, but they reflect the spell back to the person behind the wand. Ron found that out the hard way. Twice. Later in the film, when we see a bad guy, not The Bad Guy, just a bad guy, with Ron's broken wand, we know before the bad guy that he's in deep trouble. He's trying to incapacitate Harry and Ron and run away like a coward, but he only succeeded in wiping his own memory. That couple of seconds when we see the broken wand in his hand are delicious. It's only a moment of anticipation, but it contains the essence of the boys' victory over the terrible monster that has turned their friend to stone.

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