Hagrid and Wand size (was Wands/Ron's Role/HHR's powers)

[Elizabeth Dalton]

No: HPFGUIDX 32233



Michelle ~~ wrote:

<interesting stuff about wand length>

> As for growing out of a wand, I think it's more a case of a changing
> personality than growing height.  The list above makes it unlikely that wand
> height is proportional to physical height (though not completely
> impossible).  In the real world, as a person grows older, their interests,
> and sometimes even their strenghts and weaknesses change.  Growing out of a
> wand could simply be an illustration of this.
> 

Well, that would at least explain why Ron had Charlie's old wand. Maybe Charlie
was a lot like Ron at that age. And they weren't similar in height (Charlie
being more stocky), so I'd say it would have been inward similarity, rather than
outward.

I used to assume Rowling hadn't put an awful lot of thought into the wand
descriptions, just plenty of adjectives to make them amusing. But after reading
the posts about the meaning of trees, I'm not so sure. I don't know what the
length meanings would be, though. Numerology wouldn't seem to make sense with
fractions, for example.

Elizabeth
(Trying to cheer up after her last gloomy post)