How did Fawkes' feathers end up in LV and HP's wands?

[davenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 132893

davenclaw:
>   What 
> > does it mean that for some 50 years the other wand sat in 
> > Ollivander's shop collecting dust?
> 

Finwitch:
> 
> Who says it did? All we know that Fawkes has given two feathers. One 
> for Tom (bought about 50 years before Harry bought his, yes) and one 
> for Harry - but not at what interval this happened. The second 
> feather may have been donated during the prophecy, or any time 
> afterwards as well.


Oooh, great point.  Perhaps DD had Ollivander make another wand from 
Fawkes after Riddle became LV, specifically so that it would be 
a "weapon" that could contend with LV given the right possessor.  And 
DD probably knew perfectly well that Harry would be the one, given the 
prophecy and the events at GH.  You'd think that Ollivander would have 
gone straight for that wand, but I guess you'd want to see what 
happens with other wands first just in case he hasn't really developed 
the connection to LV that DD has suspected.

Sometimes I wonder just how important the specific wand is to the 
wizard. (I know there was a long thread about this recently.)  There 
are many cases of a wizard pulling off a fine bit of magic with 
someone else's wand - I think Pettigrew uses LV's wand to kill Cedric 
(not positive), and we know Barty Jr. used Harry's to set off the Dark 
Mark.

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