Apologies - Wands for life?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 36683

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "lupinesque" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Leon wrote:
> 
> > No, the wand chooses the wizard, and it's for life.
> 
> How do we know it's for life?  The only person we know to possess 
the 
> same wand for many years is Voldemort, and we don't know that the 
> Fawkes wand was his first; he could have bought it shortly before 
> killing Lily and James.  Not *too* shortly, IMO--I think 
Ollivander's 
> a thoroughgoing good guy and wouldn't have sold it to him once he'd 
> risen to power.  But it could easily be thirty years after he began 
at 
> Hogwarts.

Quite - I think he *did* buy a new wand... his old one no longer 
suitable as he'd changed somehow (when he became sort of immortal, 
perhaps?) and was worn out, exploded, worn out...

Yes - Ollivander would NOT sell wand to any who was deprived the 
right to have one. He's ashamed to think that *his* wand has killed - 
and caused Harry's scar. He may have given Harry a discount (without 
telling him) to ease his conscience. Usually a wand would cost more 
than 7 Galleons, I think... (OK, AD offered Dobby 10 Galleons a week -
a standard salary?) I sort of doubt that a wand costs less than an 
average weekly payment. Thinking of the trouble he has to get the 
ingredients, rareness of phoenix feathers...

Charlie's wand did wear out so he got a new one. I think he didn't 
tend it every night like Cedric...

Mr. Ollivander knows what each the wand is made of- and *who* made 
it. Miss Delacour was exception, perhaps. Her grandmother's hair... 
Sounds like a specially made wand. Maybe... Maybe they teach wand-
making in Beauxbatons Academy? Did Fleur make her own wand?
"Grandmother, may I please have your hair for a wand?"

She said she's having a job at Hogwarts - is she teaching wand-making?