Wands - again

[Karen Hess]

No: HPFGUIDX 105392

halli:
Don't want to butt in or anything, but I don't think Ollivander actually HAD 
to know it was LV who had the other wand. All he had to know was that TR 
bought the wand with Fawkes' feather in it, and that Harry bought the second 
one, and that DD would want to know. Of course, he could have known, because 
he could link two and two together, with his extraordinary memory of the 
wands he's sold and their owners.



KB responds:

Sorry, halli, I guess I didn't make it clear that I was using canon for 
Ollivander's specific knowledge of LV's ownership of the wand.

Just before Harry starts to buy his wand, Ollivander points to Harry's scar 
and says "I'm sorry to say I sold the wand that did it" and then goes on to 
describe it as "Thirteen and a half inches. Yew...very powerful." (PS/SS, p. 
64, Can. ed.)

And then there is a longer, more telling exchange after Harry's wand has 
been matched up with him, "It is very curious indeed that you should be 
destined for this wand when its brother -- why, it's brother gave you that 
scar. [...] I think we must expect great things from you, Mr Potter ... 
After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things -- terrible, yes, but 
great." (p. 65)

So I will stick to my question, only this time I'll provide a tentative 
answer.

Did 11-year-old Tom Riddle buy the wand and Ollivander know TR turned into 
LV (how? I don't think this was common knowledge -- I might be reading 
things wrong, but even DD only suspected  the connection before CoS?)

OR

Did Ollivander knowingly sell a powerful wand to LV?

It is common knowledge that LV caused the scar on Harry's forehead. But for 
Ollivander to make the connection with his own wand causing the scar, I am 
thinking it could not have been Tom that bought it, but LV.

This gives me second thoughts about ESE!Ollivander. I think if LV came to me 
wanting to buy something I was selling, I doubt that I'd refuse him!

OTOH, why would LV go to Ollivander and not to some wandmaker in Knockturn 
Alley (if one exists), or to the Durmstrang wandmaker, or some other ESE 
wandmaker? And what does that "terrible, but great" crack mean?

And I still want to know about those "silvery eyes" of Mr Ollivander's.

KB

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