Sirius' wand

[Mark D.]

No: HPFGUIDX 79403

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tuck668" <tuck668 at y...> wrote:
> While rereading OOP, I had this sudden revelation about Sirius. 
> When a wizard goes to Azkaban, especially for a life sentence, I 
> assumed that their wand was broken, or at least confiscated in 
> some way. Yet, in OOP, Sirius has a wand and it is never mentioned 
> how he got it.
> 
As we saw increasingly in the Potter series, many wizards use 
borrowed wands (ie Ron's first hand-me-down wand, Neville using his 
dad's wand). Despite Olivander's speech in SSt, it seems that not 
all wizards are personally matched to their wands. (Draco mentioned 
in SSt that his mother was picking out his wand)

I think the average wizard's first wand is not top of the line like 
Olivander's. I'm guessing that along with second-hand wand stores, 
Diagon Alley probably has budget line stores.(If Olivanders is a 
Rolls Royce, they probably have Chevys & Fords all the way down to 
Hyindais and Kias) You remember that Harry was brought to 
Olivander's by Hagrid who had (a) a lot of money & (b) the desire to 
get Harry the 'best wand'.

Going back to Sirius' situation IMHO it's probable that among all 
the magical artifacts there was at least one wand.