Phoenixes and wand cores

[Mags]

No: HPFGUIDX 19519

I've tried to search the archives to see if this has already come up, 
but I couldn't look at most of the messages so sorry if someone's 
already thought of this!

I've just looked at PS and I've noticed that when Mr. Ollivander 
talks about different wands, he hardly ever seems to mention their 
cores.

'You have your mother's eyes.  It seems only yesterday she was in 
here herself, buying her first wand.  Ten and a quarter inches, 
swishy, made of willow.  Nice wand for charm work'

and...

'Your father, on the other hand, favoured a mahogany wand.  Eleven 
inches.  Pliable.  A little more power and excellent for 
transfiguration'

Phoenixes have got to be pretty rare birds, and if, like Fawkes, they 
only give one or two feathers for use as wand cores, just how many 
people DO have phoenix tail-feathers in their wands?  JKR hasn't told 
us what was in Lily and James' wands, so I'm prepared to bet they 
both had phoenix feathers too.  And could this be an explanation for 
the mysterious 'Order of the Phoenix'.

I'm sure I'm not the first to bring this up, but I just thought I'd 
contribute something!  Now, back to my lurking.

Mags