The Movie Costumes

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

I went to FIDM's Exhibit of costumes from (mostly Oscar-nominated, 
but they request to borrow the costumes long before the nominations 
are finalized, so they have to guess) movies. Relevance to HPfGU 
(enough relevance that I wonder if this should be on the main list) 
is that HP was one of the movies. The costumes displayed were the 
Bloody Baron, some guy, Harry in school uniform, and Oliver in 
Quidditch uniforms (down, down, you Biggerstaff fanatics, the 
costumes were displayed on mannequins, not on actors). I was 
IMMENSELY disappointed that it didn't include Snape's costume, or 
Dumbledore's, or ANY of the teachers.

However, it did include some wands (pinned up on a wall where I 
couldn't reach them to see if one would shoot out sparks for me) and 
I was pleased to see that just about all the handles were lathed 
differently (round-and-round grooves or ridges as a bit of 
decoration). Because, while I don't believe that Potterverse wands 
really have separate handles, I do believe that they are elaborately 
carved and decorated pieces of wood. Much more elaborate than just a 
little bit of lathing (maybe a whole lot of lathing!).

One of the wands looked like its handle was a little HAND of darker 
wood and a whole bunch of binding matching the lighter colored wood 
of the main wand. Tim suggested that that was Ron's broken wand. 
Does anyone know?