Harry & Lord Voldemort's Wands

[innermurk]

No: HPFGUIDX 56152

Yahoomort seems to have eaten my post, so I'm trying again.

--- 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

I've always thought that for a wand to be a brother, there was more 
to the core than just coming from the same animal.
I thought that Fawkes gave a feather from his tail, waited for that 
feather to grow back, and then gave it again. This forms a closer 
bond to the feathers since they're essentially the *same* feather, 
even though they're different. It would make them more closely 
related than just another feather from anywhere on the same bird.
This would make the priori incantatum effect a rare occurance, 
because I'm sure that getting the same hair from a unicorn's tail, or 
the same heartstring from a dragon would prove difficult and in the 
later case, impossible. The chances of meeting a brother wand would 
then become slim.
Also, I thought the wood would come into play as well. Previous posts 
have shown us how closely related the Holly and Yew are. Both have 
descriptions of death/rebirth/life. This would relate the wands as 
well as their cores right?

Just my take on it.
Innermurk