Thank you! It's been a long time since I wrote a mystery, so it was fun to take the opportunity to write another one. I'm so glad that it held together for you.
It was fun to play with the Elder Wand, both as an artifact and a symbol. It's always seemed to me that a witch's/wizard's wand is most effective when the person wielding it believes in its power, so I wanted to play with the idea of how much of the Elder Wand's power was inherent and how much of it was psychological. Poor guinea pig Harry! *g*