Harry's wand

[artsylynda at aol.com]

In the first two movies, Harry had a rather plain looking wand, and  
according to canon, it was 11 inches, holly, phoenix feather core (as we all  know).  
The point here is the 11 inches, and the fact that the initial wand  was quite 
plain, just a turned handle and a smooth shaft (I guess you'd call  it).  I 
noticed in PoA the wands were much more ornate (very pretty, where  the ones in 
the first two films were plain and "workmanlike" not fancy), with  vines 
carved down the length of the wands, and fancier handles.  I just  followed a link 
that was on Leaky (here's the URL to the wand I'm talking  about:  
_http://www.noblecollection.com/catalog/product.cfm?id=NN7005&catid=21_ 
(http://www.noblecollection.com/catalog/product.cfm?id=NN7005&catid=21)  )  and not only are 
the wands more ornate (they have copies of Hermione's and Ron's  wands for sale 
too), but they say this wand is 14 inches long -- that's the  length of 
Voldemort's wand (according to canon -- I've been re-reading  Sorceror's Stone 
lately).  I just found that interesting in all kinds of  ways, for some reason.  
I'm tossing it out here in case anyone wants to  speculate on why (in Harry's 
world) his wand might have "grown" with him.   I think the filmmakers just 
wanted the wands to be bigger because the kids are  bigger, most likely.  I 
wondered if anyone had any other interesting ideas  on the subject.  

Lynda

"The cat's among the pixies now." Mrs. Figg,  OoP



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