Harry & Lord Voldemort's Wands

[pegruppel]

No: HPFGUIDX 56105

Jean wrote:
My son says that since Harry and LV's wands share the core from the 
same phoenix that their wands are the same.  Now I come back with "No 
two Ollivander wands are the  same, just as no two unicorns, dragons, 
or phoenixes are quite the same." But Billy says that the phoenix is 
the same and I said yes but the wood is different.  LV's wand is made 
of yew and is 13.5" long.  Harry's wand is made of holly and is 11" 
long.  Billy said that didn't matter it is the magical core that 
> matters.  
> 

Me:

Jean, I'm going to take your side in this one.  I believe that it's 
the combination of the wood *and* the core that makes a wand unique.  
In other words, there is no other wand that exactly matches either 
Voldemort's or Harry's, although the cores are from the same animal.  

In fact, in GoF, Dumbledore states that the cores of the two wands 
are from two different feathers from Fawkes (sorry, I'm lazy and I'm 
not going to go get the book to get the page numbers).  That would 
make the cores even more different.  I think.

At any rate, I hope I've given you some more material for your side 
of the disagreement!

Peg