OOP: Still some other questions SPOILERS

[medeacallous]

No: HPFGUIDX 64636

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "azevedan" <azevedan at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "medeacallous" 
> <medeacallous at y...> wrote:
> > I know that from PS and GoF it sounds as though
> > Ollivander's is the Official Wandmaker for Hogwarts Students, 
> > but there is evidence that he's not the only game in town.
> 
> Yeah, but I can't see Sirius being able to stroll into any of them 
> and say, "I need a wand to replace the one taken from me after 
that 
> shipped my butt off to Azkaban."  Since we see the criminal 
element 
> in the wizarding world in OoP, perhaps there's a way to come by 
them 
> under the table.  Or is owl order possible ("well, a 14-inch yew 
with 
> unicorn hair worked well for me last time")?  If so, why didn't 
> Sirius get one in GoF?  Mightn't a wand been just a touch more 
> important to acquire than a Firebolt for Harry?  
> 
> Ann, currently on flying all over the US and making my way through 
> OoP again


But in the part of my post that you snipped, I also suggested it 
would be possible to get wands in other parts of the world.  At the 
end of PoA and during part of GoF, Sirius was travelling.  Couldn't 
he have picked one up during his journey?

Of course, I also think it possible that your suggestion is correct, 
about getting it on a black market - but it's also possible that the 
source for black market wands is actually a foreign wand shop.

MC