It took about twenty years after Dumbledore’s trial for a dark wizard to suspect that the Elder Wand might have been taken into evidence when Dumbledore was arrested by the Muggles’ British Army. But what happened to the Elder Wand then? One theory was that the Royal Wizard in London now owned the Elder Wand; another theory was that Harry Potter, living in Wales, now had the Elder Wand. In either case, good luck, Mr Dark Wizard, stealing the Elder Wand! But no dark wizard guessed that the Elder Wand actually was in the basement of a Muggle courthouse in Edinburgh, Scotland.