[HPforGrownups] Wand cores

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 44363


Richelle:
> 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."
> 

And his old one contained unicorn hair, too. When he pulls it out on the 
Hogwarts Express on their first journey, we hear that, 'it was chipped in 
places and something white was glinting at the end.'  Then Ron says, 'Unicorn 
hair's nearly poking out.'

Richelle:
>So my general assumption is that there must be other wand cores besides 
those >four.  

Sorry, I've been reading the thread backwards!
Not in Ollivander wands. Ollivander quite specifically says (PS/SS) that the 
cores he uses are phoenix feathers, unicorn hair and dragon heartstring. He 
evidently finds sufficient supplies of those items. In GoF (Weighing of the 
Wands) he tells us he's never used Veela hair, as it makes for a 
temperamental wand. But who knows what other wandmakers use!

Incidentally, this does bring up the more general question of just where all 
those magical ingredients do come from. I suppose you'd get rather a lot of 
heartstring, liver and blood from one dragon. They must have methods of 
preserving it, though.

Eloise


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