Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
Harry will have his wand at the ready the moment he tells Palpy to **** off, man. It will be in blocking position beforehand.
Because Palpatine the complete idiot will allow this beforehand, just cuz. Harry goe to grab his little twig while Palpatine is talking, he's gets to ride the lightning or the wand is force-pulled away and snapped. Just stop, dude.
Also, you're guessing that Potter's wand will be able to block Force-lightning, which isn't a single stream of lightning, it's many and it jumps around everywhere. So it may block one bolt, the others come around and fry him. This is of course going with your scenario that Palpatine is a complete moron; even moron-Palp can beat Potter.