*spoilers*
mnkboy907 posted...
From: metroid composite | #009
Which raises the question: when you're a wizard, what use do you have for a sword, even a nice one?
When you go up against a basilisk or need to cut off the head of a snake horcrux (but only after going up against a basilisk and absorbing its venom)?
See...book 2 Harry didn't really know magic...and more to the point didn't actually have a wand at the time, so a sword was pretty handy. I'm pretty sure a qualified wizard with a wand wouldn't have much use for a sword against a basilisk.
Past that, never during Godric Gryffindor's lifetime did the sword have basilisk venom--yes, after Harry was done messing around with the sword in the chamber of secrets it suddenly became quite useful, but that came centuries after Gryffindor died.... Plenty of founder items gained extra magic powers centuries later (several of them becoming horcruxes, for instance).
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