Harry & Lord Voldemort's Wands

[innermurk]

No: HPFGUIDX 56144

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tom Wall" <thomasmwall at y...> 
wrote:
> I've wondered about Priori Incantantem before, as well. Dumbledore 
> describes it as "a very rare effect," (ibid) which I don't get at 
> all. I mean, there are about a thousand kids at Hogwarts, right? 
> 
> Just how many unicorns, dragons, and phoenixes is Ollivander going 
> around plucking stuff from, anyways? It seems (to me) more than 
> likely to me that a lot of the wands he sells are 'brothers,' which 
> makes me skeptical about how 'rare' this effect actually is. 
> 
> My best guess is that people don't force their wands to do battle 
too 
> often.
> 
> Anyways, good luck with the debate.
> 
> -Tom

My take on this was that Fawkes gave two feathers, but they came from 
the same place. He gave one, waited for it to grow back and then gave 
it again. This would make those feathers more closely related than 
any randomly picked feathers from the same bird right?
So, when picking hair from a unicorn's tail, how easy would it be to 
find the *same* hair? This would make the brother effects on the 
wands a rare occurance....at least more so than if it was just 
required to be from the same animal/being/whatever.

Innermurk