Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: 12 HUGE Changes To The Battle Of Hogwarts

As aforementioned, the Elder Wand is much more important in the book series than in the films, and in the book Harry's final act as owner of the wand is to fix his original wand that had been broken during his fight with Nagini in Godric's Hollow.

Ask any Harry Potter fan what their biggest frustrations with the films are, and guaranteed most of them will say Harry breaking the Elder Wand on the bridge following the Battle of Hogwarts.

In the film canon, Harry's original wand is never fixed, and by breaking the Elder Wand rather than returning it to Dumbledore's tomb like he does in the book, he will have to purchase a new one in order to be able to properly wield a wand.

Hermione attempts to fix Harry's wand with her own several times, but he instead has to take turns swapping wands with her and Ron before using Malfoy's following his stealing of it at Malfoy Manor, but Rowling ensures her readers know that any wand he uses will never be as powerful as the one that is his own. Even Ollivander tells him that the repairing of a wand as severely damaged as his is impossible.

Unless repaired by the Elder Wand, which is what makes this change from book to screen so infuriating. It would have been such an easy scene to film, but instead Harry snaps the Elder Wand in two and throws it from the bridge into the unknown.

While a newly purchased wand would work just fine for Harry in the future, the original wand is symbolically important due to its pairing with Voldemort, as the phoenix feathers in both wands came from Dumbledore's phoenix - Fawkes.