Wand woods (VERY LONG)

[Hollydaze]

No: HPFGUIDX 30582

Myself and a friend (Mandy) did some research into the woods of the wands and came across some VERY interesting stuff that could tell us a lot about future plot lines in the books, about the different characters personalities and even their futures:

OAK (Hagrid - before Snapped):
The tree of truth. 
It is ancient and wise and has an old spirit.
Oak symbolises wisdom, strength, and endurance.
Oak is extremely versatile and can be used in many areas of magic. 
It can be used in spells for protection, strength, success and stability. 

Does anyone else look at that list and find themselves thinking of Dumbledore more than Hagrid?


YEW (Voldemort) : 
It symbolises transformation, great age, and reincarnation.
Yew is a good shield for magical energies, any that directly hit the wood are reflected.
Symbol of the deities of death and rebirth. 
All parts of the tree are poisonous. 
Eternal life and immortality sums up the attributes of the Yew tree. 
Signals a rebirth of the self. 
Raising the Dead.
The Yew is known as the death tree in all European countries. 

We found this interesting as almost every website we found yew on said it was used in the re-incarnation of the dead, whether that be of ones self or generally speaking. What did Voldemort do in the last book but a form of regeneration, maybe it could even be termed re-incarnation. Funny then that that should be connected to the meaning of his wand wood don't you think?

This in turn leads us on to:

Holly (Harry) :  
A symbol of the life force, vitality and immortality. 
It wards off negative energies. 
The shiny green leaves represent the vitality of life even in the coldest of times.
Symbolises combat, defence, and a "look but don't touch" beauty. 
It is used as a life symbol. 
The Holly eases thoughts of jealousy and mistrust while protecting from evil spirits.
The Holly will indicate a balance and strength needed to overcome challenges.
The knowledge of when to fight and when to defend.
Protection, Anti Lightning, Luck, Dream Magic.
Protection, prophecy.

Ok so what do we have here then? What's all this talk from JK about 
Harry not surviving past book 7, and yet we have been doing research 
and his wand is all to do with life force and immortality. Hmmm, 
is this a little red herring from JK? Especially after the meaning of 
LV's wand connecting so nicely with what he has just done. 

We also have the ability to:
 
WARD OF ENEMIES, well it's warded of LV enough times.

DREAM MAGIC AND PROPHECY, how many people have said something about 
Harry's dreams being important and his scar predicting things?

PROTECTION, again important due to the amount of times he has escaped 
LV and the protection he has/had from his mother.

BALANCE AND STRENGTH (to deal with challenges) well come on he's had 
enough challenges to prove this isn't just a coincidence - all those at the beginning of book 1, the task in the TWT the is it goes on.

KNOWLEDGE OF WHEN TO FIGHT AND DEFEND: Pretty well what happened in the last book then with the imperious curse, and fighting LV and how to do it etc! Also with Quirrell in the first book (grabbing face etc) even in the 2nd book with the basilisk, and that instinct of not killing Sirius in the 3rd book.

PROPHECY: Well we already think that Trelawny's prediction is to do with Harry.

I think there is more in there but there is a lot of things that connect for it all just to be coincidence.

Also having done all this I now find something very odd about the film:

Research:
"Holly is a beautiful white wood with an almost invisible grain; looks very much like ivory." 
Interesting then that in the Film Harry's wand is Black - or at least VERY dark brown!!!!!!

Lily's wand is made of willow, well the meaning of willow is to do with dying young and she died pretty young if she was only a maximum age of 23. The only problem here is that Ron's (new) wand is willow too. Maybe we should be worried about Ron even after what JK said about him not dying.

I couldn't find much on Mahogany as the sites we looked at were all to do with the meaning of British trees to the Celts. Mahogany is not a British tree and so was not mentioned.
All I could find on this was "Anti Lightning".


I also looked up some other wand woods that someone mentioned on my own site and came up with the following:

Ash (Cedric): Intelligent, talented, likes to play with its fate, very reliable and trust-worthy, faithful. 
Reliable/trustworthy and Faithful: all characteristics of Hufflepuff and Cedric was a typical Hufflepuff going on Dumbledore's! Speech at the end of book four.

Hornbeam (Krum) I only found this on one site but what I found was rather interesting! "is seldom happy with his/her feelings, mistrusts most people, is never sure of its decisions" sounds quite a bit like Krum really.

Rosewood (Fleur)I could not find Rosewood on ANY of the sites I looked 
at.

There were a couple of other woods that we looked up but I can't find the information we found on them any more. I just find it really interesting that so much that we found connects directly to it's owner, might explain why the wand chooses the person not the other way round. The wand instinctively knows what that person is like and will be like so plays to their abilities and allows them to fulfil their potential so to speak.

HOLLYDAZE!!!



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