Wand Wonderings (was: Re: Tangent: Mr. Ollivander)

[gelite67]

No: HPFGUIDX 151681

Angie wrote:
> >It's not like LV can't get another wand with a phoenix feather 
made 
> of yew wood.  
> 
> Sridhar:
> I second this, since LV can then get a feather from a different 
> phoenix. Otherwise, the wand-locking effect will continue. But I 
> wonder, can we mix more than 2 substances for the wand core. There 
is 
> nothing in the canon to justify this, but its just a thought.

Angie again:
> Hmm.  Interesting. I have no idea how the laws of physics work in 
the WW.  You have to wonder if two magical substances(or why not 
three) would make the wand super-powerful or if they would cancel 
each other out?

> Sridhar <snip>:
> But as he says, in PS/SS, it is the wand that really chooses its 
> owner. Can he prevent a different wand from choosing LV?
> 
Angie replies:

The only way I can see Ollivander preventing a wand from choosing a 
wizard is to not give it to him in the first place, but I don't see 
how that would happen, given that his normal routine is to continue 
to offer a different wand until the right "chooses" the wizard.  

But that wouldn'd be what we are talking about here, would it?  
Sounds to me like this would be WW first -- the wizard choosing the 
wand instead of the other way around.  And I sure don't know how that 
works, but I'd like to believe that Ollivander could "tweak" the wand 
just a bit so that it wouldn't work properly when it met Harry's wand.

I think the more fundamental question is whether a wand can choose a 
wizard who already has an operable wand?  In other words, can a 
wizard have more than one operable wand that has been chosen by him?  
If not, then LV would be forced to destroy his own wand to get 
another one and I can't see that happening.  

Further, can't there be more than one "right" wand for a person?  
Couldn't there be one in Ollivander's shop as well as Gregoravitch or 
whatever his name is that made Krum's wand?  And what happens to the 
wands that are never chosen????

If the Irder has Ollivander, is it possible he has made another wand 
for Harry? Or perhaps Harry will wind up using his mother's wand or 
his father's wand?  I've always wondered what happened to his 
mother's wand and his father's wand.... I guess we are supposed to 
assume they were destroyed that night at GH?

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