Hermione's wand and related question.

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48665

Lisa, (Newcastle,Australia) Asks;

>>Does anyone have any information regarding the properties of Hermione's 
wand?
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2. Despite Ollivander's assertion, "You'd never get such good results with 
another Wizard's wand",(P.S.,64), first year Hermione was able to flawlessly 
perform the alohomora charm with Harry's wand. A wand fine-tuned to Harry 
and, by the nature of their connection, to Voldemort.<<

When did this happen? I don't recall Hermione performing any spells with 
*Harry's* wand. (Although if it was during the labrynth sequence, that was 
the end of the year, by which time most students would have been able to get 
*some* results from somebody else's wand. And Hermione might be3 expected to 
be better than average at it -- she was at everything else.) 

As to Hermione's wand, we have been told *nothing* of it to date. (It's 
mostly the boys who go about bragging about their wands, after all.) I 
wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that her wand has a phoenix feather 
core. (She IS good at Transfiguration, and phoenix feather seems to be the 
most excellent conductor for "change" magic -- as unicorn hair is for "charm" 
magic. We still don't know what dragon heartstring's specialty is.) But for 
symetry one might rather expect her to carry dragon heartstring. (We already 
know that Harry's is phoenix feather and Ron's is unicorn hair.)

Somewhere back in the archives there was a nice little discussion of the 
symbolism attached to dfferent trees which you might find interesting. I 
don't know whether the wand in question that set it off was Snapes or 
Hermione's but it might have been either. 

For the record, we don't know the components of Dumbledore's wand either. Or 
of any of the teachers', except Hagrid's original one. (Oak and dragon 
heartstring, 16 inches.)

-JOdel (who agrees that the most likely scenareo for a "betrayal" from 
Hermione is for her to pass information to the wrong party out of 
misjudgement of character/motives.)