Fawkes

[Anne]

No: HPFGUIDX 54165

 > Barbara ("bwerschkun") wrote:
> 
> >However, Voldemort's wand also contains one of Fawkes' feathers and
> >when he and Harry duel at the end of GoF, there is green light
> >emerging from Voldemort's wand, while red light is from Harry's... 
I
> >have always wondered about this: why does Voldemort have a wand 
with a
> >feather from Fawkes?  
> 
> 
 And Mr. Ed thought, in response:
> 
> Wasn't Fawkes's feather chosen for Harry in terms of greatness and 
NOT with 
> respect to its goodness/badness? ...   In other words, Harry's wand 
is capable of doing "not nice" things.
> 

Now Anne U:
IIRC Harry's wand was *already made* when he walked into Ollivander's 
shop to buy a wand. Presumably Tom Riddle's wand was also already 
made when he bought it from Ollivander's in the late 1930s. So the 
questions I have are:

1) Does Mr. Ollivander make *any* wand already knowing that a 
specific wizard will come in and that that wand will choose that 
wizard? If so, the whole process of letting the (usually neophyte) 
wizard attempt to pick his/her wand is something of a charade.

2) Fawkes (whose age is indeterminate but we know he's ancient 
because he's been reborn many times) has given only 2 tail feathers, 
and those ended up in the wands that chose Tom Riddle--who later 
*chose* to become Lord Voldemort--and Harry Potter. I believe it's 
established that the Mr. Ollivander who made and sold the wand to 
Harry is the same Mr. Ollivander who made and sold the other wand to 
Tom Riddle (and not, say, a son or a nephew). So I'd also like to 
know whether Ollivander made these two wands at approximately the 
same time, knowing that Tom Riddle and Harry Potter *themselves* 
would eventually be chosen by the wands? Or did he make them at the 
same time knowing that the two wands would eventually choose two (as 
yet unknown to him) extremely powerful wizards? Or did he make them 
at different times using tail feathers given at different times??

Anne U
(who begs forgiveness if these have been answered already in the 
archives but I don't have time to look them up right now)