Reading with JK Rowling - One More Thing - Spoiler Warning

[annemflynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 156368

Oops! I forgot some more things that Jo said.

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One question was why Ollivander (Jo) chose the magical components of 
the wands that he did, and didn't use Veela hair and such in his 
wands. Jo said that well, 1) those were her three favorites (phonenix 
feather, etc); and 2) that the wands are made specific to regions and 
that different regions would use differet things in their wands 
because they had different magical creatures. 

Another girl asked if a muggle were to follow the exact instructions 
to a potion and use the exact ingredients, could it be correctly 
made? Jo said no, because sooner or later they'd have to use a wand 
and a muggle cannot use a wand correctly without disaster or a 
violent occurrence happening because they don't have magical 
qualities in them, as we'll see more of in book 7. So, I'm left to 
wonder what muggle is going to use a wand? Probably one of the 
Dursleys obviously, and I'm supposing Harry's wand. Maybe this will 
be the whole Petunia thing coming into play.

She also said that she was surprised at how much left there was to 
explain. She said she'd hadn't really realized that she had left that 
much unexplained, and she did give a chuckle over shippers, etc., 
when asked if she ever read anything on line. She said one bored day 
she Googled Harry Potter and was totally blown away at what came. She 
said she had no idea! 

Anne Marie