Harry's Holly Wand Connotating Christmas

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 42840

Felicia wrote:
> May we assume therefore that it was just the luck of the draw 
> that Harry got the wand that was Voldemort's twin then, and that it 
> is a coincidence that both are made out of wood associated in some 
> form with death i.e. *Holly and Yew*, and that Lily Potter's wand 
> was good for charm work and James's wand better for transfiguration 
> by more arbitrary selection?

Now me:

My theory on why JKR chose holly as Harry's wand wood is because 
holly is associated with Christmas, and I am of the belief that Harry 
is meant to save the wizarding world from evil as Christ was sent to 
save the world from evil.

We had a recent discussion about how in each book, something 
significant happens on Halloween, but something significant also 
happens each Christmas.  In PS/SS, Harry receives the invisibility 
cloak; in CoS, Harry, Ron and Hermione drink the Polyjuice Potion; in 
PoA, Harry receives the Firebolt and in GoF, there's the Yule Ball 
and Hagrid revealing himself as a half-giant.

Laurel is a wood associated with Mars/Ares, the gods of war, so I'm 
wondering whether we might see a baddie with a laurel wand in a 
future book (perhaps the former Professor Romulus J. Lupin, Remus' 
brother, that I theorized might have previously owned the battered 
briefcase)?

~Phyllis
who agrees with JKR that those who say her books are anti-
Christian "haven't read them properly"