Fleur and Wands (was: 50 Questions..)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 54948

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katy Cartee" <rainbow at r...> 
wrote:
> 
> In fact, that brings me to another question. I started reading book 
#1 again and noticed a few things about Olivander's shop that i 
hadn't before:
> 
>     SS pg. 83 US
>     "Rubeus! Rubeus Hagrid! How nice to see you again...
>     Oak, sixteen inches, rather bendy, wasn't it?"
>     "It was, sir, yes," said Hagrid.
>     "Good wand, that one. But I suppose they snapped it 
>     in half when you got expelled?" said Mr. Ollivander, 
>     suddenly stern.
>     "Er - yes, they did, yes," said Hagrid, shuffling his 
>     feet. "I've still got the pieces, though," he added brightly.
>     "But you don't use them?" said Mr. Ollivander sharply.
>     "Oh, no, sir," said Hagrid quickly.
> 
> So wands get snapped in two when you're expelled from Hogwarts. I 
suppose the same practice is used when a wizard is sent to Azkaban? 
And "pieces" of a wand can still be used to perform magic after the 
wand is broken. Interesting. 
> 

Me:

Well, Hagrid's wand was snapped in two, but possibly it's not 
*always* cut! After all, Hagrid was (falsely) accused of endangering 
lives of students (several died?)... Performing Hoovering Charm/some 
minor magic at home?

What comes to Ollivanders being the only place to buy wands, well - 
it's only one in Diagon Alley, I suppose - possibly only one in 
Britain, too. Krum bought his from a wandmaker Ollivander knew - 
Fleur, then: I believe that Fleur's Veela-wand is her own making, 
made during her second last year! "Hair from a head of a Veela. My 
Grand-mother's". So, she got the core from her grandmother - big 
broblem for Ollivander to *get* one, but she just asked her dear 
grandmother, the rose-wood probably grew in the yard...

She might make a wand for her sister, I think...

-- Finwitch