[HPforGrownups] Reading with JK Rowling - One More Thing - Spoiler Warning

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 156371

Anne Marie:
> 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.

So that means some wizards don't get their ideal wand because it would
have been one with a core that's not available at Ollie's? What does
he do if every wand in the shop "rejects" them? Send them to another
country?

Anne Marie:
> 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

Whoa. There is no indication in canon that _every_ potion requires use
of a wand. This seems like one of those evasive answers, where the
real meaning is "Yes, there are some potions that they can make, the
ones that don't require a wand"

> Maybe this will be the whole Petunia thing coming into play.

I'd be very disappointed if "the whole Petunia thing" turned out to be
a whole lot of nothing, but given the sheer _number_ of things that
"have to" turn up in Book 7, there's no way to fit them all in.