Wands -- Azkaban

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 18173

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Vikki <finnan at k...> wrote:
> Are wands easily destroyed? Sure, they can be snapped and Ron's wand 
has a
> chip in it but you carry your wands around all the time.  If a wand 
choses a
> wizard, doesn't that imply that there is only one wand to choose a 
wizard?
> Obviously wands wear out or break, or people are sentenced to 
Azkaban etc..
> so is each wand that a wizard has just as good?  Or do they only 
have one
> wand (eg.. Tom Riddle)

I would imagine that wands are fairly durable, but *can* be broken or 
destroyed.  Anything that would reduce the entire house to rubble 
would probably also break the wands.  

As for the "one wand per wizard", in PS/SS Ron says that he's got 
Charlie's old wand.  Since we know Charlie isn't dead, wizards clearly 
*can* have more than one wand.  But certain ones suit them better than 
others.



Andrea