Wand woods (VERY LONG)

[opaldragonfly at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 30608

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Hollydaze" <hollydaze at b...> wrote:
> 
> 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?

>Yes--This would certainly match Dumbledore and I have many "bets 
with other fans that D's wand will turn out to be Oak.  Hagrid, 
though, is also a Gryffindor and very strong physically, so the Oak 
would fit him as well. 
> 
> YEW (Voldemort) : 

The Yew, although an evergreen (immortality), is one of the very few 
trees that can grow in almost total DARKNESS.  This would certainly 
fit the Dark powers of V.


> 
> 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.

The willow is a Healing wood because its bark and wood contains, as 
discovered "officially" by Bayer in the mid-twentieth century, the 
basic ingredient of aspitrin:  o-acetylsalicylic acid.  The Celts and 
Druids regarded it as a tree of Creativity and Eloquence and seers 
and actors, poets and other artists used to sit under willows and 
wait for inspiration.  It was also regarded as a wood which was an 
enemy of all evil forces.
> 
> 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".
>
 Yes--the mahogany tree is of the southern hemisphere.  A hardwood 
and a dark reddish wood, supposedly powerful protection agains evil 
spirits.  But, not as powerful as the ebony tree's wood which is the 
southern hemisphere's match for the oak.

> 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.

 Interestingle, snakes cannot cross a ring made of ash wood!   Too 
bad Cedric didn't have a chance to use his wand before he was killed!
> 
> 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.
> 
Hornbeam is a member of the Carpinus family--maybe that's where we 
get "carping" from!  Also a hardwood of Europe and North America--
simple leaves and smooth bark.

Holldaze wrote:
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!!!
> 
>No question about it!  JKR carefully researched these woods so that 
their powers would reflect on the nature of their owners!  Since I 
teach HP symbolism in my literature course, I also researched many of 
these wand woods and found very similar info to yours!  Just added a 
couple of points! Opal Dragonfly 
> 
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