Utdraget från den 7: e boken "Harry Potter och de dödliga Hallows" under sista minuten-slaget visar att de två stavarna träffade varandra. Men då var äldstens stav inte tillräckligt stark mot sin sanna mästare och så återföll stavningen tillbaka till Voldemort. Det här var inte en koppling av wands och inget guldljus omringade dem båda som hände i "Fire of Fire" / strong>
The light hit both of their faces at the same time, so that Voldemort’s was suddenly a flaming blur. Harry heard the high voice shriek as he too yelled his best hope to the heavens, pointing Draco’s wand: “Avada Kedavra!” “Expelliarmus!” The bang was like a cannon blast, and the golden flames that erupted between them, at the dead center of the circle they had been treading, marked the point where the spells collided. Harry saw Voldemort’s green jet meet his own spell, saw the Elder Wand fly high, dark against the sunrise, spinning across the enchanted ceiling like the head of Nagini, spinning through the air toward the master it would not kill, who had come to take full possession of it at last. And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils of the scarlet eyes rolling upward. Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing. Voldemort was dead, killed by his own rebounding curse, and Harry stood with two wands in his hand, staring down at his enemy’s shell.
Också i boken finns det inget behov av att de är uppenbara, de har redan tillgång till Hogwarts genom Snape och Death Eaters ligger redan inom sina väggar och människorna insidan bemannar grindarna, vilket inte skulle krävas om apparater var möjliga