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Originally Posted by ernie
The story never said one had to be disarmed while in physical possession of the wand for the wand to switch allegiance. The history of the wand was one of disarming and death mainly because of the wizards that pursued it. However, if the wand felt you had rightfully outwitted the opponent (which is all disarming is) in other ways I see no reason why it wouldn't switch allegiance. Grinnewald outsmarted the wandmaker and was rewarded with the wands allegiance.
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Not to mention that a wand like that probably wants to be used and the wandmaker wasn't using it. So when someone came along that was going to kill with it, it probably had no issues switching allegiances.