wands

[Scott]

Someone among the faceless masses wrote:
"Mine is short... 8 and 3/4 inches, redwood, and phoenix feather."

--Mine was too, but I didn't like having the same wand as everyone 
else, because I'm a jealous little thing, and my new one is...Yew and 
something...

My real wand is maple, 12 inches and Kneazle hair, but that's not a 
standard Ollivander model.

Rita wrote:
"I like to think that Ollivander's wands are not merely not rough 
branches, but are nicely turned and lathed and bentwood, and that 
Lucius's wand is ebony that's shaped kind of like an oblong 
cross-section, but twisted the way up so it has like two spiral 
ridges running up it (and gets narrower toward the busness end) and 
has a very small vein on (non tarnishing) silver running along side 
one of the ridges.... like if you remember those inlaid belt buckets 
that had tiny dots of silver inlaid for stars, very beautiful without 
being very blatant..."

--OH! <excited jumping> I hated it when the artwork came out for this 
very reason. I always pictured the wands as carved with swirls 
colours and designs. Your description of Lucius'(s) wand is perfect 
with my mental picture. I also hate those things they're putting on 
the ends of wands for the movie.

I have a stick that I'm sanding and scraping and it will be my wand 
someday. <sigh>

Scott