Wand question

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 33830

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Eric Oppen" <oppen at c...> wrote:
> One thing I want to know is this:  If a wizard or witch has their 
wand broken (as happened to Hagrid) what's preventing him 
from getting a replacement somewhere? <<

Perhaps the wand itself has something to do with it.  Perhaps 
some rather complex magic has to be done to sever the bond 
between the user and the old wand before it is broken or 
discarded.  Maybe a new wand won't choose you if there is still a 
bond with your old one. I wonder about Narcissa going to look at 
wands in SS/PS. Does she care more about the appearance of 
her wand than its magical properties? If she is a sort of trophy 
witch she might regard it as beneath her to do her own magic. 
Maybe her House Elves and servants do it all.

I imagine it is the spellwork more than the raw ingredients which 
make wands difficult to manufacture, though all the animals are 
noted in FB as difficult to catch. It could be that when Hagrid 
says, "only place for wands, Ollivander's" he is telling the literal 
truth: Ollivander's really is the only place in the British Isles to get 
a wand. 


<snip>
 Would Hagrid have been able to use his father's wand?  What 
_does_
> happen to a wizard's wand when he dies?  

  I assume that stage magicians adopted from wizards the 
custom of snapping the wand in two at the funeral and placing it 
in the coffin to be buried. If this was done when Hagrid's father 
died, of course the wand wouldn't be available. 

Pippin