Thoughts on Wands (slightly long)

[karywick <karenwickersham@ameritech.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 53006

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve <bboy_mn at y...>" 
<bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> > 
> Back to printed fictional reality. My analysis of wandmaking, and I
> have analysed it because I'm using it in a story (for reference,
> Harry's next wand, in my world, will be Holly handle, Yew shaft, and
> Dragon Heart core with a dragon carved into the handle), (snip)> 
> My personal theory on 'the wand chooses the wizard' is that there 
is a
> magical harmonic resonance between the wand and the wizard. Like the
> opera singer breaking the glass, when things resonate in harmony, 
the
> whole is greater than the sum of it's parts, and that harmonic
> resonance is what makes a specific wand extra powerful when it is in
> the hands of a well matched wizard.
> 

So, Steve- do you think that Harry will need a new wand after 
resolving the climax with Voldmort??Is his wand just matched to this 
task since it has been stated that it's twin is LV's or is it 
particularily well matched to Harry because it has Fawkes' feather in 
it?   I think that somehow the wands lenght might have something to 
do with the height or physical strenght of the person just from the 
clue that Fluers is so short and Hagrids is so long and everyone's 
else is in between. The type of wood might have something to do with 
what their special ability is.  Maybe the wood in LV is better for do 
Dark Magic and Harry's wood is better for defending the Dark Arts as 
everyone seems to hint is his talent.  Otherwise why would there be a 
reason to mention the different wood at all?

The core has to have to do with something that would give that 
particular person more magical power or strength.  I've been 
wondering then why would  Voldemort's wand have Fawke's feather in 
it?  A crazy thought went though my head, "what would you take from a 
serpent representing Salazar, a cast off skin???"  Or does the fact 
the LV has the twin to Harry's wand say somewthing more about his 
parentage that we will find out later on?  Maybe he stole it, but 
then why would both Ollivander and Dumbledore know that he had the 
twin to Harry's?  Did LV get this wand at eleven,like the others from 
Ollivander, before attending Hogwarts, and being sorted, before 
turing bad?  

I never felt that Wizards cast off wand for new ones all the time 
unless a catastrophe happened like with Ron and they were required to 
buy a new one that fit them well. As far as the Unicorh hair- I 
thought that a few weeks ago someone mentioned that all Weasleys had 
Unicorn hair in their wands.   It doesn't seem with all the hand 
craftsmanship that wands could just be easily repaired with a spell 
like others in the past few days have suggested on this list.

I know I've suggested more questions than offered answers but I've 
always wondered about LV's wand and wonder what other's thought.

Thanks but its one of those things I've been wondering on those 
insomiac nights when I can't stop my brain from wandering! ;)

Kary