Wands and their cores
rcraigharman at hotmail.com
rcraigharman at hotmail.com
Thu May 10 22:18:12 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 18509
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Stephanie Roark Keener" <sdrk1 at y...>
wrote:
>
> Here's something interesting. Appalachian folklore (which means
that
> this most likely has a lowland Scot or northern English origin)
holds
> that Ash wood keeps away SNAKES. Now, don't get too excited, I
> already checked, and Harry's wand is made of Holly. However,
> Cedric's wand was made of ash. Reckon what happened to it? Do you
> think Wormtail or someone picked it up? I don't remember Harry
> bringing it back along with Cedric's body.
Holly, of course, is a very blond (almost white) wood, which for
obvious reasons carries implications of purity. I know because
I went as Harry last Halloween and researched out the wand wood to
determine what my wand should be made of. In the end, I didn't
have the time to make a holly wand and had to settle for an off-
white plastic dowel.
I note that the pictures I've seen, either of the movie wand or wands
based on those in the movie, get Harry's wand entirely wrong, imho.
....Craig
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