[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily the seer, Loyal to Voldie, Wand Cores, Harry's Ancestors, and LOONies ...

[Incitatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 23122

Michelle wrote:

> Which made me go and grab both of my copies of GoF. 
> It is written 
> the same in both the bastardized American version
> and the highly 
> coveted Orginal British Edition, the chapter
> entitled "The Parting of 
> the Ways" (pages 697 and 605, respectively):
> 

Unable to wait twelve hours until the end of my shift
and much to the amusement of my colleagues I just
phoned my other half and asked him to read out the
relevant chapter and I concur that the passage does
not specify two feathers.

However it does state that ' ... each of them (Harry's
and Voldemorts wands) contains a feather from the same
phoenix.'

The fact that it says 'a feather' implies that each
wand contains a whole feather;)
> 
> Ok, so Fawkes gave an unspecified amount of tail <he
> he> feathers 
> to ?? Mr. Ollivander ?? 

This is another good question. How many other Fawkes
filled wands are there running around out there.

> 
> #1.  Fawkes gave 2 seperate feathers, allowing Mr.
> Ollivander to make 
> 2 sperate wands, with the 2 said feathers, thus the
> wands that were 
> made are brothers because their feathers came from
> the same bird.
>                         ***or***
> #2.  Fawkes gave a single feather, which Mr.
> Ollivander somehow 
> seperated (cut in half, or however he decided to
> divide it) and made 
> 2 wands out of, thus the wands being brothers
> seperated at birth, in 
> a manner of speaking.

Actually I like the second possiblity as much as the
first. It suggests a slightly closer bond between the
two.

Catriona


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