I have been asked a few times by various people via either review or PM about my take on the Elder Wand. I don't like the canon solution of Harry returning the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's tomb. This piece gives what I think would have been a better end to the story of the Elder Wand.

Harry Potter had just finished using the Elder Wand to repair his own holly and phoenix feather wand and was now confronted with a "what do I do now?" situation with regards to the Elder Wand itself.

He thought of returning the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's white tomb.

His first initial thought was that the power of the Elder Wand would break if he died a natural death, and he did not trust himself not to cave to temptation if he kept the Elder Wand for himself.

But after thinking it over for a few minutes and a few nanoseconds, Harry now realized The Flaw in the Plan.

The Elder Wand was not passed down by murder, as was a popular legend, but rather, by defeat.

Sure, murder could be the method used to achieve defeat, but it didn't have to be.

In fact, the Elder Wand's two most recent passings of mastership, first from Albus Dumbledore to Draco Malfoy, and then from Draco Malfoy to Harry Potter, had resulted not from murder but from disarming.

The Elder Wand had shifted allegiances from Albus Dumbledore to Draco Malfoy when and because Draco had disarmed Dumbledore and had then witched loyalties from Draco Malfoy to Harry Potter because Harry had disarmed Draco.

And the previous two passings of mastership in the Elder Wand before that had also NOT occurred by murder either. The Elder Wand had been won by Dumbledore via his defeat of Gellert Grindelwald. However, Dumbledore had not murdered Grindelwald as Grindelwald would live out his life spending seven decades in Nurmengard Prison before finally being murdered by Voldemort. And Grindelwald himself had become master of the Elder Wand himself via theft when he had stolen it from Gregorovitch.

Furthermore, given the fact that murder was widely believed to be the only way to win the loyalty of the Elder Wand, Harry would find himself a target if he kept the Elder himself.

The chances of him actually succeeding in dying a natural death in these circumstances were about as good as the chances of a snail beating a cheetah in a race.

There was no way to know the entire realm of things and possibilities that could constitute defeat.

And without even considering any other possibilities, the disarming method along was highly concerning.

Harry realized that another witch or wizard could win the loyalty of the Elder Wand from him simply by disarming him.

And if he or she was the wrong person to have control of the Elder Wand and knew where the Elder Wand was, well, there would be hell to pay, especially if he or she was highly skilled at Dark Magic.

Harry gave it a few more minutes and a few more nanoseconds of thought before he concluded two things that he would use to his advantage.

Harry realized that the Elder Wand's power could be broken if that was the will of the current master of the Elder Wand.

He also understood that once its power broke, he could not risk having it restored by a future master who had won it from him.

Harry knew that he needed to both break the Elder Wand's power and then destroy the Elder Wand itself beyond repair.

He also knew he had to undertake this mission alone.

Other people would try to dissuade him from doing what he knew he needed to do if he told them his plans, and many would actually try to stop him. There would also be those who would aggressively try to convince Harry to keep the Elder Wand for himself for about nine hundred octillion different reasons.

So, Harry, with the Elder Wand in his left hand pocket, walked by himself out to the Black Lake.

Slowly and seriously, Harry looked around to ensure no one was watching him.

Harry then made sure to be as quiet as a non-chirping cricket when he pulled the Elder Wand out of his left pocket with his left hand.

Now putting both hands around the Elder Wand, Harry forcefully snapped the Elder Wand clear in two. As he did so, he heard an unusual and distinct type of breaking sound. Harry could almost feel power being extracted from the Elder Wand as he held one of the now two pieces in each of his hands.

After about a minute and a nanosecond, harry could almost feel a limp lifelessness to the two wand fragments he was holding.

The breaking of the Elder Wand's power had been successful. Harry had been right to think that the Elder Wand would break its power if that was the will of its current master.

Now, Harry understood that he needed to make sure that the Elder Wand would NEVER be repaired or come back to life.

It couldn't be Frosty the Snowman and be back again someday.

It needed to be Darling Clementine and be lost and gone forever.

To make that happen, Harry knew that he had to do something to the Elder Wand to cause permanent and irreversible damage to its now pieces.

Fortunately, an easy solution was right in front of Harry.

One of the worst kinds of damage wood could suffer from was water damage.

And that was why Harry had come out to the Black Lake. It was a vast body of water.

Harry tossed the two pieces of the Elder Wand into the Black Lake and knew that was the end of it.

The Elder Wand's pieces would never be fixable after the water damage the toss into the Black Lake had caused them and the Elder Wand could never come back again. its time was up.

The Elder Wand was no more.

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