[HPforGrownups] Wand cores

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 44349



Dave writes:

> One thing about Ron -- When exactly do we learn about Ron's wand?
> Is it before or after it snapped in _CoS_?  And if before, did he get
> another with the same core?

I'm 95% sure both wands had the same core.  I know for sure the new has a
unicorn hair, it's in PoA, chapter 4: "Look at this, brand new wand.
Fourteen inches, willow, containing one unicorn tail hair."

> Another question: Do two wands have to be from the same individual
> animal to be "brothers"? -- In other words, if Harry and Voldy's wands
> had come from *different* Phoenixes, would Priori Incantatum still have
> happened?

I should think Priori Incantatum would only happen if the two feathers (tail
hairs, whatever) are from the exact same bird, unicorn, etc.  Which to me
means it is a tremendously long shot for such a thing to happen.  Ever.  Not
to mention that the spells must be cast simultaneously, which isn't that
easy to time either.

Richelle