leaky poll -- wands

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 157641

Jaime wrote:
> 
> Sorry, for such a short reply but Neville declares in HPB that his  
> new wand is cherry and unicorn hair. Unicorns seem to be symbolic of  
> purity and healing.
> 
> I thought it was irrelevant who was originally intended in the  
> prophecy and that it only mattered that Voldemort chose Harry. Maybe  
> I'm not understand Dumbledore correctly when he explained the  
> prophecy at the end of OOTP but I thought he was making the point  
> that who the Chosen One actually was is irrelevant and that it was  
> Voldemort's decision that put these chain of events into action.
>
Carol responds:
Good points. Harry's wand stands for eternal life (holly and phoenix
feather) and Voldmeort's (apparently) stands for *earthly* immortality
(yew and and phoenix feather). Harry's wand would have sensed the
"bit" of Voldemort in Harry, whether that "bit" is his transferred
powers (canonical) or a soul bit (speculation). Neville's wand sensed
something entirely different. (I've always thought that Neville would
become the Herbology teacher when Professor Sprout retires, but I
wouldn't mind his becoming a Healer, as his wand perhaps implies.)

I just realized that "the Chosen One" means more than the WW thins it
means--the one chosen by fate to defeat Voldemort. And it means more
than the Prophecy Boy as well. Harry is the one Chosen by Voldemort.
(No doubt everyone else realized that already, but it hit me as I read
 Jaime's post.) So, as JKR says on her site, Neville is not the chosen
one and it's not his job to destroy Voldemort. It's Harry the Hero's
quest. I agree that Neville's job is to deal with Bellatrix. (I'd love
to see him have Bellatrix at his mercy and *show* her mercy by *not*
Crucioing or killing her. I do think, of course, that she should spend
her remaining years wasting away in Azkaban, maybe knitting caps and
socks for house-elfs.)

Carol, going to check out the symbolic implications of cherry wood