Wand Thoughts

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 153249

---  "Steve" <bboyminn...> wrote:
>
> ---  "Kim" <inspirit> wrote:
> >
> > ...edited,,,
> > 
> > My first thought brought about some rather minor questions:
> > "The wand chooses the wizard."  How?  Why this wizard instead of
> > that one?  ...
> >
> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> Peggy has already done an excellent job of answering you, (SNIP)
> 
> I also think you can't walk into a Wand Shop and say, oh
> isn't that a pretty wand, I think I'll have that one. (SNIP)
> 
> I use the illustration of magical resonance. When a wizard and a 
> wand have a very close magical resonance, when they are in magical 
> harmony, then the wizard has found a wand that matches him.
> 
>  
> > ...edited...
> > 
> > If the wand chooses the wizard, and there are two wands with 
> > Fawkes feather in it, and one chose Voldy and the other chose 
> > Harry... Then I have some more questions:
> > 
> > Why did a wand with Fawkes' feather choose Voldy?  And why does 
> > Olivander expect great things from the person chosen by the  
> > other wand with that feather?  ...edited...
> > 
> > Or am I reaching too far for a plot twist to unravel?
> > 
> > Thanks for your thoughts, Kim
> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> From what I can tell Ollivander only had two wands that had Fawkes
> Phoenix feathers. One was sold to Voldemort many years ago. (SNIP) 
in the intervening roughly 50 or 60 years since
> Voldemort bought his wand, he has proven himself a very great and
> powerful wizard. Since Harry buys a wand that is very similar to
> Voldemort's, and since Ollivander has a general sense of Harry's 
> fate, it is reasonable for him to conclude that we can also expect 
> great things from Harry. (SNIP)

AUSSIE
ONCE FAWKES TAIL FEATHER HAD ASSISTED A DARK WIZARD, DD MAY NOT HAVE 
WANTED ANY MORE OF HIS PHOENIX'S FEATHERS TO GO TO OLLIVANDER. A 
SECOND WAS ALREADY IN A WAND BY THE TIME TOM TOOK ON THE LV NAME, SO 
THAT WAND REMAINED TILL HARRY CAME IN.

> bboyminn:
> I speculate that wand cores have characteristics. The books seem to
> imply that wands with Unicorn Hair are suited to subtle magic like
> Charms. (SNIP) Where as
> Dragon Heart is more suited to the powerful transient burst magic
> necessary for Transfigurations. (SNIP) I consider Phoenix Feather 
> the 'Royal' core; it is equally suited and especially powerful in 
> both subtle and delicate as well as high energy burst 
> transformation magic.
> 
> Also note that Dragon parts, blood, claw, skin, meat, heart, are 
all
> readily available. We see them several times in the course of the
> books. Unicorn Hair is also readily available. (SNIP) However, we 
have only seen one Phoenix, and a reading of the
> history and nature of Phoenix tells us that their feathers are 
> likely to be very rare and very expensive. (SNIP) 
> 
> Also, note that Harry tried other Phoenix feather wands, but only
> Fawke's wand feather was a match to him.
> 

AUSSIE
RARE? CODSWALLOP (to quote Hagrid)! Both Ollivanders and Phoenixes 
were around before Hogwarts. 

CANON: "Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C" (PS Chap 
5) ... "Every Ollivander wand has a core of a powerful magical 
substance, Mr. Potter. We use unicorn hairs, phoenix tail feathers, 
and the heartstrings of dragons. No two Ollivander wands are the 
same, just as no two unicorns, dragons, or phoenixes are quite the 
same."
"I've never used veela hair myself, of course.  I find it makes for 
rather temperamental wands" (GOF Chap 18)

So if they limit the cores to 3 substances, they need a supply for 
the demand.

LENGTH is notable too. Most of the wands Harry tried were shorter 
than the one he has. Eleven inches is the same length as James, and 
shorter only that Cedric's, LV's and Hagrid's old one.

Neville - Cherry and Unicorn hair as the first wand that chose him 
(and the last that Ollivander sold), instead of his dad's old wand 
broken during the fight in MOM. Will that change Neville's magical 
ability?