[HPforGrownups] Wand woods (VERY LONG)

[Shannon Compton]

No: HPFGUIDX 30591

Hollydaze wrote:
>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:
>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.

Ooooh, interesting topic!  I did a little research into willow because,
well, I don't like the thought of anything Ron has being associated  ONLY
with early death! And I knew I'd seen a bit of this sort of thing on willow
before.  Here is one thing I found. The website is www.treelore.com if
anyone is interested in looking...they have several different kinds of
trees listed.  I'm pulling out a few of the parts that seemed relevant.

Lore and Divinatory Aspects:

Willow is associated with death, femininity, love, and healing. It posesses
the powers of love, divination, friendship, joy, love, peace, protection,
and healing.

Magical Usage

For love magic, protection magic, healing magic, and peaceful magic. Used
to create loyalty, make friendship pacts, treaties, or alliances. Used for
intuition, knowledge, gentle nurturing, and will elucidate the feminine
qualities of both men and women. Its leaves are used in love attraction
sachets and moon magic wands from its wood. Used to dowse for water
(underground), earth energies, and buried objects. Used combined with
sandalwood to invoke spirits. Placed in homes, it protects against evil and
malign sorcery. Carried, the wood will give bravery, dexterity, and help
one overcome the fear of death. If one needs to get something off their
chest or to share a secret, confess to a willow and your secret will be
trapped. Willow wood is good for magical harps. Good for planting and
lining burial graves for its symbolism of death and protection. 


Quite a bit about loyalty, bravery, friendship and healing.  Interesting...

Shannnon