![]() Wands are extremely personal items for a wizard, almost as much a part of themselves as any real body part. And Voldemort is asking them to hand over the last thing that might still protect them. But it also shows us that some of Voldemort's once loyal servants are now miserable and stick around strictly out of trepidation, like the Malfoys. The fact that even Bellatrix hesitates shows how valuable wands are to wizards in fact, we see in Hallows how wands pretty much represent the magic in them when the Ministry strips them off Muggle-born wizards that it considers too 'human'. That he wanted to borrow one of their arms. The faces around him displayed nothing but shock he might have announced ![]() So they stall, torn between conflicting instincts of self preservation: Obey their powerful master to avoid further harm, or be rendered utterly defenseless. They run on self-interest, cold calculation, mistrust and fear. ![]() But these aren't exactly traits shared by Death Eaters who mostly descended from the house of Slytherin. And if Voldemort's followers were smart enough, brave enough and selfless enough, they might've had more weight. You raised some good arguments in your comment.
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